Cabbies vulnerable after hepatitis A case at Logan
By Marie Szaniszlo
Monday, July 12, 2004
Boston public health officials yesterday announced a second confirmed case of hepatitis A in a city food worker in 10 days - an employee at a Logan International Airport restaurant where as many as 3,000 cabbies may have eaten over a five-day period.
The Boston Public Health Commission recommends anyone who ate at the Taxi Pool Cafe from June 30 to July 4 receive an injection of immune globulin at a clinic being held Wednesday and Thursday at an East Boston location yet to be announced.
The general public is not at risk, officials stressed, because the cafe is open only to cab drivers and hepatitis A is not transmittable through the air. Only people who ate food prepared at the restaurant could contract the disease.
Symptoms include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea and jaundice.
