Worker at downtown Norfolk restaurant has Hepatitis A
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Reported by: Kathryn Barrett
A worker at a Norfolk restaurant has Hepatitis A and health officials want to find patrons who might have been exposed.
Health officials said the alert affects some customers of Alice Mae's Soul Food Restaurant at 112 Bank Street. You have to have eaten cornbread or iced, cold beverages on April 15, 16 17 and 18th between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and closing.
The Norfolk Health Department is ready to answer questions if you ate at the downtown restaurant on those dates and times and ate those specific foods.
CALL WITH QUESTIONS:
Dial 683-2034 until 8:00 p.m. Tuesday and from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
CLINICS:
April 27 through April 29 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Health Department.
Additional clinics will be set up between April 30 and May 2, but times and locations haven't been worked out yet.
Hepatitis A is a liver disease caused by the Hepatitis A virus. Symptoms include tiredness, poor appetite, fever, nausea. darl urine and jaundice (or yellowing) of the skin and whites of the eyes.
Those symptoms can occur two to six weeks after exposure.
The shots can be given up to 14 days after exposure to prevent getting the disease.
The restaurant in Portsmouth IS NOT affected by this alert, health officials added.
