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LEXINGTON
April 20, 2006

More than two dozen students at Tates Creek High School have been exposed to Hepatitis A, and now the health department wants them to get checked out.

Officials with the health department have determined that 26 students, all freshmen, at the school tutored a third grade class at Tates Creek Elementary School where Hepatitis A was present. One of the children in the third grade class tested positive for Hepatitis A. The child was excluded from school as soon as test results were confirmed. On Monday, April 10, the student was in school and potentially contagious. The freshmen tutored the students in the third grade class that Monday.

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April 20, 2006
WKYT.com (Kentucky)

New information on the Hepatitis A outbreak that's hit some Fayette county schools.

The Health Department says it now appears some Tates Creek High School students may have been exposed.

26 freshmen tutored a third grade class at Tates Creek Elementary while a student with Hepatitis A was there.

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April 20, 2006

Jacksboro, Campbell County (WVLT) - Concerns over a Hepatitis-A outbreak last spring in Campbell County are resurfacing.

Four people have filed lawsuits against a Jacksboro restaurant they believe may have helped spread the outbreak.

Whitney Daniel has the details of each lawsuit and explains why these people are filing suits almost a year later.

Before this, attorneys say, there wasn't ample evidence pinpointing one particular restaurant as the source of the outbreak. Now, they say Long John Silver's Seafood Shoppe in Jacksboro is the source.

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April 19, 2006
Airdrie Echo
Karen Lazaruk

Do you know that hepatitis is a form of liver disease? If you do, you are more informed than about 50 per cent of Canadians, according to a recent survey.

The Canadian Liver Foundation recently commissioned a study to gauge Canadians' knowledge about hepatitis, which revealed that 46 per cent of respondents understood it to be a liver disease, while few believed they were at risk for contracting it -- leading experts in the field to call for more research and education.

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By Raviya H. Ismail
HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER

Health department officials said yesterday that a third-grader at Tates Creek Elementary School has been diagnosed with hepatitis A.

The infected student is a sibling to a preschool student at Yates Elementary School who was diagnosed with the virus last month.

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April 14, 2006

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report on April 14 titled, Preliminary FoodNet Data on the Incidence of Infection with Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through Food - 10 States, United States, 2005. FoodNet collects data from 10 U.S. states regarding diseases caused by enteric pathogens transmitted commonly through food. This report describes preliminary surveillance data for 2005 and compares them with baseline data from the period 1996-1998.

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Fri, Apr. 14, 2006
By Raviya H. Ismail
HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER

Health department officials said yesterday that a third-grader at Tates Creek Elementary School has been diagnosed with hepatitis A.

The infected student is a sibling to a preschool student at Yates Elementary School who was diagnosed with the virus last month.

The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department will administer free hepatitis A immunizations to children and school staff members in the affected classes from 3:30 to 7 p.m. today.

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April 12, 2006

Ukraine - And twenty-one children have been hospitalized in a village in Chernivtsi oblast after an outbreak of hepatitis A.

According to the health ministry, two of the children's conditions are serious; ten have mild cases of the liver disease, while nine were hospitalized as a preventative measure. The cause of hepatitis A outbreak is being investigated.

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April 8, 2006

Malta - The Department of Public Health is taking all the necessary precautions after three children were infected with Hepatitis A, which is normally associated with bad hygiene.

The department said yesterday it had reason to believe that the three cases were related and it was taking all the measures to control the situation and ensure the infection does not spread. All those people who have in some way or another come into contact with the infected children have been vaccinated.

The Health Division informed the teachers and parents of the children, who attend the same school, that there was no health risk and no reason why children should not attend school.

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by Paul Cachia, di-ve news (pcachia@di-ve.com)

SENGLEA, Malta (di-ve news)--April 07, 2006 -- The Staff and pupils at the Senglea primary school were immunised against Hepatitis A.

Three children were struck down with the virus. The symptoms of Hepatitis A, which is an infection of the liver, include fever, vomiting and diarrhoea.

The Health Division said that the immunisation programme was being offered to the school as a precautionary measure.

"The most important thing people can do is wash their hands after going to the toilet and before and after eating", it said in a statement.

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By Debra Filcman/ Staff Writer
Thursday, April 6, 2006

Everyone asks a neighbor for help once in a while, even cities and towns, but there aren't official procedures in place to do it.

That may soon change if voters approve Article 16 at Town Meeting this year. The article would create a formal mutual aid agreement, much like those used by fire departments, between the health departments of 28 cities and towns in the commonwealth.

"It's just a structure for requesting aid from other communities," Health Director Janice Berns said. "We already have an informal understanding with other towns; this just formalizes it."

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On November 6, 2004, the Chemung County Health Department issued a hepatitis A news release announcing that four persons had confirmed hepatitis A infections which were traceable to the Maple Lawn Dairy Family Restaurant in Elmira. The Health Department also advised that persons who had eaten at the defendant's restaurant between September 26 and October 10, 2004 may have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus. A restaurant employee was diagnosed with the hepatitis A virus on October 10, 2004 and was working at the defendant's restaurant while infected with the virus. The Department recommended that persons who had potentially been exposed receive injections of immune globulin, an antibody treatment that provides protection from the hepatitis A virus if exposure to the virus has occurred within 14 days prior to the injection.

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April 6, 2006
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY)

It's been a week since the last case of hepatitis A was reported to the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department, so officials think the spread of the disease has been stopped.

The health department's disease investigators also have found that of the 14 people who had hepatitis A, six of them -- four adults and two children -- live in Bourbon County. All treatment of the ill people is complete.

The Bourbon County Health Department has been notified.

The Fayette County Health Department is checking into the 14th case to confirm the lab results. A hepatitis A antibody test apparently showed the presence of hepatitis A in the person's system, but the person might not have exhibited symptoms of hepatitis A.

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Wed, Apr. 05, 2006
HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT

It's been a week since the last case of hepatitis A was reported to the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department, so officials think the spread of the disease has been stopped.

The health department's disease investigators also have found that of the 14 people who had hepatitis A, six of them -- four adults and two children -- live in Bourbon County. All treatment of the ill people is complete.

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Pennsylvania State health officials first learned of a potential HAV outbreak from emergency room doctors in Beaver County, who reported an unusually high number of hepatitis A cases in late October, 2003. Investigators from the health department began investigating the people who had fallen ill, and determined that the common thread for all was having eaten at the Chi-Chi's restaurant at the Beaver Valley Mall. Once the department isolated the restaurant as the probable source of the outbreak, Chi-Chi's closed the restaurant voluntarily and it remained closed for a number of weeks.

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In mid-October, 1999, an unusually high number of hepatitis-A cases were reported among individuals residing in Northeast Seattle and Snohomish County. At the same time, the Snohomish Health District reported an increased number of hepatitis-A cases reported among individuals who resided in Snohomish County, but who worked in the Northeast Seattle area. Because the infected individuals had no other identified risk factor for hepatitis A, health department officials quickly suspected the existence of an hepatitis-A outbreak with a common foodborne source located in Northeast Seattle.

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In early December, 2000, Lake County Health Department (LCHD) learned of seven hepatitis A cases, including five hospitalizations, in Lake and neighboring Sumter Counties in a two week span. During the previous two years, the total number of known hepatitis A cases in Lake County was twenty-two. Recognizing the possibility of an outbreak, LCHD notified the Florida Department of Health.

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April 4, 2006

Health officials in Lexington remain concerned about Hepatitis A, but they point to some good news.

A spokesperson for the Health Department says the outstanding test results for all students and staff are back from last week's clinics.

None tested positive for the potentially dangerous virus.

So far, there are 13 confirmed cases of Hepatitis A in Lexington.

Students at two Fayette County public schools have the virus. Results are still pending on another possible case.

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Fri, Mar. 31, 2006
Associated Press

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Four new cases of hepatitis A were found in Fayette County, bringing to 14 the number of people affected by the illness, but health investigators haven't determined how some of the people became sick.

T.J. Sugg, regional epidemiologist for the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department, said the investigation is continuing, especially since three of the recent cases have no obvious connection to the prior cases.

The first reported cases were among an extended family in two households. The family's toddler was exposed to hepatitis A while traveling outside the United States. The family's kindergartner, who attends Mary Todd Elementary, passed it to two classmates. Then a neighbor of the family got the disease.

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