Iowa experienced a 294 percent increase in Hepatitis A cases over the previous three-year period, the state Department of Public Health reports.
According to the annual Iowa Surveillance of Notifiable and Other Diseases report, the Cornhusker State went from a low of 13 Hepatitis A cases statewide in 2006 to 109 cases in 2008.
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Quad Cities residents are not going to soon forget the Hepatitis A outbreak at the Milan McDonald’s.
An Alpha, IL couple, Nichole and John Shannon, became the latest to sue McDonald’s and Milan, IL franchise owner Kevin Murphy in Rock Island County Circuit Court late last week. Mrs. Shannon was hospitalized from July 11-17, tested positive for
Swan’s Island is a 30-minute ride on the Captain Henry Lee, a 17-car ferry out of Bass Harbor, Maine. When you arrive after Labor Day, there are only about 350 people on the 7,000 acre island.
Now one has died and at least five others are ill –all from Hepatitis A. The six victims