16:27 | 10/ 10/ 2005
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, October 10 (RIA Novosti, the Volga area, Olga Skomorokhova) – Sixty-three people, including 11 children, were hospitalized last weekend in central Russia with suspected Hepatitis A.
A spokesman for the Nizhny Novgorod governor said 92 people were discharged at the same time.
The Emergency Situations Ministry said a total of 542 people diagnosed with hepatitis were still in local hospitals.
Another 31 people are in hospital in Balakhna, a town neighboring Nizhny Novgorod where the hepatitis outbreak was first registered.
Twenty-five people are in in-patient clinics in Dzerzhinsk, outside Nizhny Novgorod.
About 1,700 cases of Hepatitis A have been registered in Nizhny Novgorod since the outbreak in early September. More than 65,000 people have been vaccinated and more than 9,000 city residents have been treated with immunoglobulin, the governor’s spokesman said.
Health and Social Development Minister Mikhail Zurabov had previously said that poor communal services and a disruption to the water supply in late August could have caused the outbreak.

07/ 10/ 2005
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, October 7 (RIA Novosti, Andrei Rukavishnikov) – Within the last 24 hours, 40 people have been hospitalized in Nizhny Novgorod, a large city on the Volga east of Moscow, with suspected hepatitis A, a spokesman for the regional governor’s office said Friday.
In the same period, 55 in-patients have been discharged. Since the outbreak of the virus in the city in early September, 65,600 people have been vaccinated and more than 9,000 city residents have been treated with immunoglobulin, the spokesman said.

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By James Kirley
staff writer
October 6, 2005
VERO BEACH — A local restaurant is one of four eateries in Florida that was shipped contaminated oysters from
Louisiana in July that public health officials now say caused at least 16 cases of hepatitis A reported by doctors throughout September.
Investigators traced the viral liver disease to oysters eaten raw at Mr. Manatee’s Casual Grill in Vero Beach and other restaurants in Key West, Fort Lauderdale and Fort Myers Beach, according to Doc Kokol, communications director at the Florida Department of Health. He stressed that the source of infection was the oysters, not sanitation problems in the restaurants.
The batch of contaminated oysters is gone from the market, said Cheryl Dunn, Indian River County environmental health manager.

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Sun-Sentinel
October 6, 2005
WEST PALM BEACH — Two West Gate Elementary School students were diagnosed with hepatitis A, a Palm Beach County Health Department official said Wednesday.
It is not part of an outbreak at the school, at 1545 Loxahatchee Drive, west of West Palm Beach, because it was detected in two students from the same family, health department spokesman Tim O’Connor said.
Hepatitis A spreads through contact with infected bowel movements or food.

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NIZHNY NOVGOROD, October 5 (RIA Novosti, Olga Skomorokhova) – In the past 24 hours, 38 new cases of Hepatitis A have been registered in Nizhny Novgorod in central Russia, a local official said Wednesday.
According to the official, 1,517 people, including 222 children, have been hospitalized since the recent outbreak. About 50% of them have been discharged from hospitals for dispensary observation, but 687 people remain hospitalized.
The official said 66,474 people have been inoculated against the virus of the city’s 1.5 million people.
The epidemic is believed to have been caused by a sewage system breakdown.

The Daily News, Bowling Green, Ky
By Hayli Morrison
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 1–Jurors criticized Red Lobster and its defense team after awarding $225,000 and medical cost reimbursement to a Glasgow man who sued the restaurant, claiming he contracted the hepatitis A virus from a server there.
“We just thought Red Lobster should be held accountable for their employee and their practices,” juror Jamie Barnett said.
“They make rules and they don’t follow them,” juror Glenn Schilke added.

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4 October 2005 — Two United Nations agencies have convened the first meeting of some 200 experts from 50 African countries to agree on methods of strengthening existing systems to ensure safer food imports, which account for up to 60 per cent of the foodstuff available in parts of the continent.
Foodborne diseases are a particularly serious threat to Africans already weakened from malaria and HIV/AIDS, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), said at the start of the four-day conference in Harare, Zimbabwe yesterday.

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04.10.2005
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, October 4 (Itar-Tass) – Sixty people, including 12 children, have been hospitalised with suspect symptoms of viral hepatitis A in Nizhny Novgorod over the past 24 hours.
Seventy-six people earlier diagnosed with hepatitis have been discharged from hospitals after treatment, a member of the operational centre monitoring the hepatitis outbreak told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
Epidemiologists describe the situation with hepatitis A in Nizhny Novgorod as stable.

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