September 23, 2005
Public Health Agency of Canada Infectious Diseases News Brief
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/bid-bmi/dsd-dsm/nb-ab/2005/nb3805_e.html
The Alabama Department of Public Health is investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A. Since the beginning of September, 13 cases have been reported from scattered areas of the state. However, it appears that most of these patients may have contracted the disease…

Gaming conference worker infected with hepatitis A
By PAUL HARASIM
REVIEW-JOURNAL
Dr. Lawrence Sands, director of community health for the Clark County Health District, said an infected individual from Colorado served ice cream at the Expo.
Dan Maxson, an environmental health supervisor, said Clark County officials didn’t learn until late this week from Colorado officials…

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LAS VEGAS – Sept. 23, 2005 – Persons who attended the Global Gaming Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center (September 13-15, 2005) on September 13-14 may have been exposed to hepatitis A through an infected individual who worked at the conference.
The individual was working at a Schwan’s Food Service booth and was handing out samples of ice cream. The individual serving the product is considered the source of possible exposure and not the ice cream product. Thus, the Clark County Health District has the unique opportunity to notify attendees who may have come into contact with this individual to offer preventive treatment. It is also important to note the infected individual did not show symptoms of the illness until after the conference nor did he know he was infected. The individual was exposed to hepatitis A at an event unrelated to the Gaming Expo, but would have been infectious at the time he was there.Continue Reading Possible hepatitis A exposure at conference

23/ 09/ 2005
VOLGOGRAD, September 23 (RIA Novosti) – The outbreak of Hepatitis A that hit Nizhny Novgorod, a large city on the Volga east of Moscow, early September is under control, the Health and Social Development Minister told journalists Friday. Mikhail Zurabov said the system of communal services should be improved and that water…

23.09.2005
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, September 23 (Itar-Tass) – 20,900 residents of Nizhny Novgorod have been inoculated against type A hepatitis, Nizhny Novgorod Vice-Mayor Sergei Gladyshev told Itar-Tass on Friday.
Children in orphanages and boarding schools were the first to receive the inoculation, he said.
The city has received 20,000 vaccine doses from the federal authorities, so it can inoculated all residents and even supply some of the vaccine to Dzerzhinsk and Balakhna, which have also reported an increase of the type 1 hepatitis rate.Continue Reading 20,900 Nizhny Novgorod residents receive hepatitis inoculation

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2005
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New Federal Law Gives Parents Access to Cafeteria Inspection Reports
WASHINGTON – September 22 – Is your child’s school cafeteria free of rodents, under-cooked or improperly stored food, and other hazards that can cause serious”and possibly fatal”food poisoning? A new federal law makes it easier for parents to answer that question by requiring more frequent inspections and easy access to school cafeteria inspection reports.
Today the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), the nonprofit nutrition and food safety watchdog group, released its School Food Safety Bill of Rights, which tells parents how to take advantage of the new law and become involved in promoting food safety at the school level. The new law was folded into the Childhood Nutrition Reauthorization bill last year by food safety advocates in Congress, led by Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT). It went into effect in July.Continue Reading How Safe is the Food in America’s Schools?

21.09.2005
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, September 21 (Itar-Tass) – The number of hepatitis A patients has grown to 867 people, including 166 children, in the city of Nizhny Novgorod on the Volga River since an outbreak of the epidemic early in September, sources from the regional healthcare department told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
According to the sources, 75 people, including 17 children, have been hospitalised over the past 24 hours. They say patients come from all districts of the city. Up to 25 people from the Sormovsky district, the main centre of the infection, are hospitalised daily.Continue Reading Number of hepatitis patients in Volga River city reaches 867