WFXR reports that the Roanoke City and Alleghany Health Districts announced Tuesday that the number of people infected with hepatitis A more than doubled over the last two weeks following an outbreak at three Famous Anthony’s locations, going from 14 to 35 cases.
Health officials first reported the outbreak on Sept. 24, saying that
A Franklin County woman filed a lawsuit against Famous Anthony’s, alleging that she contracted hepatitis A from eating at one of the chain’s restaurants.
According to the lawsuit, Mindy Perdue ate a gravy biscuit combo on Aug. 21 at the Famous Anthony’s on Grandin Road in Roanoke. A few weeks later,
I have lost track of how many times I have implored restaurants to offer Hepatitis A vaccines to their employees. Here was my latest:
And, now here are the consequences:
Publisher’s Platform: Vaccinate restaurant employees against hepatitis A or suffer the consequences
The Virginia Department of Health says the number of total people
I felt another blog post coming on after reading Spectrum 1’s headline:
More vaccination clinics offered this week after possible Hepatitis A exposure at Fredonia restaurant
There will be two more Hepatitis A vaccination clinics in Chautauqua County this week after a potential exposure to the virus at a restaurant.
The Chautauqua County Health Department
In March, the Southern Nevada Health District announced it was working with its federal partners to investigate reports of acute non-viral hepatitis in Clark County.
The Health District initially received reports of five cases of severe acute non-viral hepatitis in children between November 23, 2020, and December 3, 2020. Since its initial investigation, the Health
I wrote this just a year ago – I have had no takers.
In 2000, I wrote this:
In light of the recent, large-scale Hepatitis A exposure in the San Francisco Bay Area, food safety attorneys of the Seattle-based law firm of Marler Clark, are asking restaurants and food manufacturers to voluntarily vaccinate all workers
Restaurants, PLEASE vaccinate your employees.
According to New York press reports, the Oneida County Health Department as well as Rome Memorial Hospital are partnering to provide Hepatitis A. vaccinations to those who think they were exposed.
This comes after the health department announced that an employee at Cianfroccos in Rome tested positive for Hepatitis A.
There is not a day that goes by that that another food services worker is found positive for Hepatitis A thereby putting thousands of customers at risk.
Here are the numbersL
Here are the states:
One dose of single-antigen hepatitis A vaccine has been shown to control outbreaks of hepatitis A and provides up to 95% seroprotection in healthy individuals for up to 11 years.
Please get one and do not become a statistic – especially, if you are a food service worker.
States with Hepatitis A cases.
Niagara County Public Health Director Daniel J. Stapleton announces a case of Hepatitis A virus in a local restaurant worker. The Niagara County Department of Health (NCDOH) launched a disease investigation on December 3, 2019 directly after receiving notification of the suspected case. Following laboratory testing, interviews and a restaurant inspection, an employee who handles
