KMTR-TV
June 17, 2006
An outbreak of hepatitis A has been traced to a restaurant in Tillamook County.TILLAMOOK, Ore. (AP) –
Health officials say the outbreak of the viral liver disease has been traced to Sharky’s Restaurant in Rockaway Beach.
Anybody who ate at Sharky’s between April 15th and April 30th may have been exposed…

June 2006
Journal of Food Protection Volume 69, Number 6, pp. 1468-1472(5)
Chancellor, David D.; Tyagi, Shachi; Bazaco, Michael C.; Bacvinskas, Sara; Chancellor, Michael B.; Dato, Virginia M.; de Miguel, Fernando
Abstract:
The largest documented foodborne hepatitis A outbreak in U.S. history occurred in November 2003. The source of that outbreak was green onions from…

By Elizabeth Smoots, MD | PRACTICAL PREVENTION
The Kitsap Sun
June 3, 2006
My patient was very sick with hepatitis A.
Adults usually suffer the most from hepatitis A. But children are the ones who contract it more readily — usually with mild symptoms or none — frequently transmitting the infection to family members or close contacts. The good news is that a unique vaccination program in children has dropped the hepatitis A rate 76 percent over six years for all age groups in our country. Here’s how the program works and why the government has begun advising hepatitis A vaccines for all one-year-olds.
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, published a report about the federal government’s hepatitis A vaccination program in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year. The program targets children ages 2 to 18 years in 17 high-risk states to receive vaccines to prevent hepatitis A. The report states that the rate of infection fell from 10.7 cases per 100,000 people during the pre-vaccination period ending in 1997 to 2.6 cases per 100,000 people in 2003. That latest figure is the lowest rate since monitoring of the disease began in the 1960s.Continue Reading Early Vaccinations Can Help Lower Hep. A Infections