Tanya Mendis
September 15,2005
Health officials say they found a confirmed case of Hepatitis-A in a food services employee in Walker County last week.
And while they say they are confident this is an isolated incident, the public still needs to be alert.
“People always need to be concerned about Hep-A,” says Logan Boss of the Northwest Georgia public health department. “For that reason, we tell people to practice basic hygene procedures.”
Health officials say Hepatitis-A is usually spread through improper hygene and sanitary practices. They say people who work in food services are more likely to contract the disease and that’s what happened in this case.

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September 15, 2005
It’s not the shot that stings, it the shot of reality that Campbell County has a serious Hepatitis-A problem.
“It’s just been a bad ongoing deal,” says Campbell County citizen Red White.
The Tennessee Regional Health Office bluntly calls it a community-wide outbreak. Hep-A keeps being passed from person to person. That’s why hundreds are lining up for free injections of immune serum globulin, the recipe for preventing Hep-A in those exposed.

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nbc13.com
September 14, 2005
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The state Health Department is investigating an outbreak of Hepatitis A. Health officials said they have found 13 cases across the state since the beginning of September.
They believe most of the cases resulted from eating raw oysters that were contaminated.
State Health Officer Don Williamson said the infections happened before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and are unrelated to any contamination caused by the hurricane.

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September 16, 2005
The Moscow Times
More than 100 new cases of hepatitis A were recorded in Nizhny Novgorod on Thursday, bringing the total number of people hospitalized to 466, including 70 children, local health officials said.
“We expect the number of infections to grow by about 100 people per day,” said Irina Kiryanova, the deputy director of the region’s health department, Interfax reported.
Meanwhile, epidemiologists were trying to determine the cause of the outbreak. The region’s chief doctor, Yevgeny Petrov, said that the infection could have been transmitted through water and sewage systems, as well as through infected food.

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Health Department: “We’re giving them everything we know”
Septemeber 15, 2005
Jacksboro, Campbell County (WVLT) – A new case of Hepatitis-A in Campbell County is cause for concern.
The reason, a restaurant worker is the latest person to contract the virus.
Volunteer TV’s Stacy McCloud spoke with health department officials Thursday morning to get answers to questions you and others want to know.
The phones have been ringing non-stop at the phone bank set up here at the Regional Health Department.
Folks that have eaten at Charley’s Pizza on Cumberland Lane in Jacksboro are calling with the typical questions, such as the dates of possible exposure and when they can get the shot.

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Public release date: 15-Sep-2005
Contact: Carrie Patterson
cpatterson@asmusa.org
202-942-9389
American Society for Microbiology
Two testing methods combined may be able to rapidly identify hepatitis A contamination in strawberries and green onions say researchers from Canada. Their findings appear in the September 2005 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Hepatitis A virus (HAV), which is endemic worldwide, is often transmitted to humans through contaminated food. Shellfish, fruits, and vegetables are commonly infected through contaminated water, surfaces, and food handlers and recent outbreaks have been specifically associated with strawberries and green onions. Detecting HAV in food has previously proven difficult due to the presence of inhibitory substances and low concentration of virus recovered.

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September 15, 2005
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Heath officials in East Tennessee say they don’t yet know the source of an outbreak of hepatitis-A that’s plagued Campbell, Scott and Cocke (KAHK’) counties this summer.
But with the discovery of a pizza restaurant worker found to be infected, authorities are urging some people who ate there to get shots.
Sandy Halford of the East Tennessee Regional Health Office says people who ate uncooked food at Charlie’s Pizza in Jacksboro on specific dates should receive an injection of immune serum globulin, which would protect them from the illness. The dates are September first, second, seventh, eighth or ninth.

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September 14, 2005
The pizza place where the woman worked is still open, after the Health Department cleared them of being the source of the Hepatitis A.
A restaurant worker is Campbell County contracted Hepatitis A, prompting a special clinic to limit the spread of the contagious and potentially deadly liver disease.
The Hepatitis A clinic starts at 1:00 Thursday afternoon at the LaFollette Church of God, ending at 8:00 in the evening.
The church will also hold a clinic Friday, starting at 9:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.
The Campbell County Health Department is urging anyone who ate at Charley’s Pizza in Jacksboro on September 1,2,7,8 and 9 come in for a free shot.

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September 14, 2005
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. A restaurant worker in Campbell County has been diagnosed with hepatitis A, and health officials today urged people who ate at the restaurant to be vaccinated.
The East Tennessee Regional Health Office has been investigating an outbreak of the viral liver disease in the county and found a person working at Charley’s Pizza in Jacksboro was diagnosed.
Officials said people who ate at the restaurant on September first, second, seventh, eighth or ninth should get an injection of immune serum globulin tomorrow or Friday at a clinic set up at the LaFollette Church of God.

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Thursday, September 15, 2005
By Oksana Yablokova
Staff Writer
A total of 316 people were hospitalized Tuesday with hepatitis A in Nizhny Novgorod, the country’s third-largest city, and local health officials were preparing to treat hundreds more as they struggled to pinpoint the cause of the outbreak.
Newly appointed Nizhny Novgorod Governor Valery Shantsev said the situation was under his personal control.
“The hospitals are being reorganized [to admit new patients],” Shantsev said on NTV television. “The disease is viral. So far, it is unclear what caused it, but the main prevention measure is not to allow contact” with those who are ill.

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