August 2005

8/24/2005
Bill Vidonic, Times Staff
BEAVER – The widow of a man whose family says he died after contracting hepatitis A in the Chi-Chi’s outbreak has sued the defunct restaurant chain and several produce suppliers.
With the lawsuit Tuesday from Marilyn Greathouse of Daugherty Township, representing the estate of her husband, Harvey Greathouse, there are six cases pending against Chi-Chi’s in county court.
Greathouse’s suit names the restaurant chain, along with four companies that supplied green onions and other produce to Chi-Chi’s: Castellini Co., Kentucky; New Star Fresh Foods, California; APIO Fresh, California; and Boskovich Farms, California.Continue Reading Widow files suit against Chi-Chi’s

Kashish Gupta
Friday, August 19, 2005 (New Delhi):
The monsoon does have some undesirable effects.
Wards in various hospitals in the Capital are overflowing with patients suffering from with viral infections.
Doctors say this is not unusual during the monsoons. Every year during this period, there is a surge in viral diseases such as dengue, hepatitis A and conjunctivitis.
Significant riseContinue Reading Alarming increase in hepatitis cases in Delhi

Express News Service
Mumbai, August 18: The dreaded Hepatitis virus claimed its first victims on Thursday. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, two people died of Hepatitis–the virus causes an inflammation in the liver that could lead to liver failure and death–on Thursday.
From July 29 to August 18 (until 8 am), 270 cases of…

Jacksboro, Campbell County (WVLT) – There are four new cases of Hepatitis-A stemming from the outbreak in Campbell County.
The health department confirms 27 cases. 25 of them are residents from Campbell County, one is from Scott and one is from Cocke County.
In all, 15 of the cases of Hepatitis-A are adults and 12…

With 16 cases confirmed in the past month, health officials announced Tuesday that a “communitywide outbreak” of hepatitis A in Campbell County is requiring “intense efforts” to stop the spread.
The confirmation of “several” cases in children is particularly concerning, said Dr. Paul Erwin, director of the East Tennessee Regional Health Office. Children often don’t show symptoms when infected with hepatitis A but can still spread the virus to others. Officials haven’t identified a source for the outbreak.
On Thursday the Campbell County Health Department and ETHRO will give hepatitis A vaccinations to all workers and children 2 and older in Campbell County’s six day-care centers. So far, only one of the confirmed cases is a day-care worker, Erwin said, “but day cares can be a place where hepatitis A can come in and go out (into the community) very quickly.”Continue Reading Hepatitis A Becomes ‘Widespread’

August, 2005
Journal of Food Protection: Volume 68, Number 8
Page 1748-1751
David H. Kingsley,a Dongsheng Guan,b and Dallas G. Hoover, b
aU.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, James W. W. Baker Center, Delaware State University, Dover, Delaware 19901
bDepartment of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark,…

August 8, 2005
WVLT
Jacksboro, Campbell County – School in Campbell County is just a week from being in full swing and with the recent outbreak of Hepatitis-A in the community, school administrators were cited as saying calls of concern have been pouring in from both parents and teachers.
That’s wh, the story says, every…

Kathmandu, 7 August: About 3,000 people, out of 20,000 people affected with food and water-borne diseases, die in last year in Nepal, an official at Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) said here Sunday [7 August]. “About 20,000 persons are affected by food and water-borne diseases with around 3,000 dying last year in Nepal,” Mahendra Bahadur Bista, director of EDCD, told reporters.
Continue Reading Food, Water-Borne Diseases Cause 3,000 Deaths in Nepal

8/5/2005, 5:21 p.m. ET
By JOE MANDAK
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP) — More than 9,000 people who received shots to ward off hepatitis A after an outbreak at a Chi-Chi’s restaurant will be mailed forms later this month so they can claim their share of an $800,000 class-action settlement.
The federal judge overseeing Chi-Chi’s bankruptcy last month approved a schedule to mail the notices by Aug. 24 to the 9,489 people who got immune globulin shots from the Pennsylvania Department of Health after the outbreak was publicized in early November 2003.
More than 600 people were sickened, and four eventually died, from eating tainted green onions served at the Beaver County Chi-Chi’s. Health officials urged shots for family members of people who became ill, as well as those who ate in the restaurant in the weeks leading up to the outbreak.Continue Reading Class-action notices to be mailed in Chi-Chi’s outbreak