The on line HealthDay News of the American news magazine, U.S. News & World Report, is filled with stories and information on food-borne illnesses stemming from imports. It includes the story of the largest Hepatitis A outbreak in U.S. history and updates the progress that one of the seriously injured victims is making five years later.
President Putin’s Vacation Spot Suffers Hep A Outbreak
You may recall that last August, there were pictures of President Putin hunting and fishing in Tuva.
We not think these events are in anyway connected, but now comes word of a Hepatitis A outbreak in Tuva’s Todzhinsky Kozhuun District.
Russia’s NewsLab is reporting that 34 children have tested positive for Hepatitis A; and 900 other children
Oregon requires Hep A vaccine for children
Oregon, it appears, will become the 11th state beginning in the Falls of 2008 to require children in preschool, childcare facilities, kindergarten and Head Start to have two doses of Hepatitis A vaccine.
Over the next few years, Hepatitis A vaccine requirements will be added to other grade levels in Oregon.
Oregon allows two types of immunization
Dirty doctor sent to prison, patients get tested
As soon as he finishes writing newspaper stories on the convicted Dr. Robert Stokes, Ken Kolker at the Grand Rapids Press should start on a script for "Law & Order."
This strange story would be weird for New York City let alone mild and mellow Grand Rapids, 
Michigan. So far, this story does not