A worker at a Calgary, Alberta, Canada McDonald’s restaurant has been diagnosed with hepatitis A, and in an effort to prevent an outbreak, public health officials are offering immune globulin injections to inoculate customers against the hepatitis A virus.
Anyone who ate at McDonald’s less than 14 days ago is eligible to receive the injection.
The latest news on available supplies of pediatric and adult formulations of hepatitis A vaccine, inactivated, is mixed. Of the two manufacturers that produce this vaccine for the U.S. market, one reports that it has temporarily ceased taking orders for vials of the vaccine, and the other states that its current production and supply levels
A second student has been diagnosed with Hepatitis A at a Fishers grade school, authorities said today.
Classes at Harrison Parkway Elementary were not dismissed because of today’s discovery – the second case this month – but letters explaining the disease were sent to parents, said Hamilton Southeastern School Assistant Superintendent Richard Hogue.
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