January 9, 2006
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BURLINGTON, N.C. – Health officials in Alamance County said they’ve confirmed five cases of Hepatitis A and are looking at six other possible cases. Two initial cases were confirmed on Dec. 30, and three others were confirmed by Jan. 5, according to a statement from the health department.
Over the weekend, officials said they were notified of another six possible cases.
Hepatitis A is caused by a virus that is passed in the stool of infected persons. Symptoms include fatigue, loss of appetite, diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, fever and possible yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes. Patients generally become sick 28-30 days after exposure to the virus, though the time can vary.Continue Reading Hepatitis A cases confirmed in Alamance County

10 January 2006
By JOANNA DAVIS
Canterbury health officials are frantically trying to find the source of a debilitating hepatitis A outbreak that has infected seven people.
Normally, only two or three cases of the viral illness, which can cause jaundice, are identified each year in Canterbury.
Poor food hygiene is the most likely cause of the outbreak which has infected seven people, some of whom are related, since Christmas.
Canterbury District Health Board medical officer of health Dr Mel Brieseman said at least two people had received hospital treatment for the illness.Continue Reading Canterbury hepatitis A outbreak infects seven

Monday, 9 January 2006
Press Release: Canterbury DHB
Seven cases of ëHepatitis A’ have been notified to the Medical Officer of Health since Christmas. Although there are associations between some of these cases there is as yet, no indication of a common source of the disease. None of these cases have travelled overseas.
Investigations are continuing to try and establish if there is any common food source. Close contacts of these cases are being followed up and may be offered preventive injections of gamma globulin if the exposure has been recent.
Three earlier cases notified in December belonged to a family who are believed to have acquired the disease during a trip to the Pacific. Since 2001, there have only been a total of 2 or 3 cases notified each year.Continue Reading Hepatitis ëA’ Cases In Christchurch

January 6, 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The 2006 Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule includes new recommendations for immunizing against meningitis, whooping cough (pertussis), influenza, hepatitis A and hepatitis B, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today.
These are some key changes:
— With regard to preventing meningitis, the meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4) should be administered to all children between 11 and 12 years old as well as to unvaccinated adolescents at high school entry (age 15 years); also, college freshmen living in dormitories should also be vaccinated with MCV4 or meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine (MPSV4).Continue Reading Kids’, teens’ immunization schedule updated

Friday Jan 6 2006
A public health alert was issued on Thursday after an outbreak of hepatitis in Darwin, reports Northern Territory News.
At least four people have contracted the disease after eating at a hotel.
The incubation period is up to seven weeks and the Territory Health Department believes there could be more cases.
Centre for Disease Control director Vicki Krause said Thursday further transmission of hepatitis A could be prevented by early detection and treatment.
The sufferers were believed to have been infected after eating at the Marrara Hotel in McMillans Rd, Jingili.Continue Reading Hepatitis outbreak prompts health alert

WTVF TV
1/5/2006
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The Health Department is issuing a warning, and they say people who ate at Carol’s Restaurant in Waverly, need to see a doctor.
Customers who ate at Carol’s Restaurant in Waverly on December 23, 24, 27 or 28th between 1:00p.m. and 8:30 p.m. should visit their doctor as soon as possible.…

Thursday, January 5, 2006
The Northern Territory’s Centre for Disease Control says no action will be taken against a Darwin hotel even though several diners contracted hepatitis A after eating there.
The centre says four people fell ill with the virus after eating at the Marrara Hotel in Jingili between November 18 and December 3.
Centre spokeswoman Vicki Krause says a kitchen worker seems to have been the source of the infection, which causes inflammation of the liver.
Dr Krause says the hotel breached no health and safety procedures.Continue Reading Hotel escapes censure over hepatitis outbreak

January 4, 2006
Mike Wilder
Times-News (NC)
The Alamance County Health Department is reporting two confirmed cases of hepatitis A and is waiting for more information on two other suspected cases of the disease.
The two known cases were confirmed last week. Health education supervisor Marcy Green said the department might learn today if the two suspected cases have been confirmed.
The health department hasn’t identified a source of infection for the people with the disease.
Family members of the people involved are receiving hepatitis A immune globulin treatments.Continue Reading County confirms hepatitis cases