Food source suspected in Hep A outbreak in six EU countries By News Desk  More than 40 cases of Hepatitis A have been reported in six European Union countries, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDPC). The 42 cases across Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom are infected with one of two distinct Hepatitis A virus genotype IA strains. The cases... Continue Reading
Hepatitis A cases nearing 100 in WV; 3 out of 4 hospitalized By News Desk  West Virginia has had 98 confirmed cases of Hepatitis A so far this year, with some of them cause by the same strain of the liver virus that has sickened people across the country. "That's an increase in cases for West Virginia," Beckley-Raleigh County Health Department Administrator Candance Hurd told the Register-Herald newspaper. "Some of... Continue Reading
Birds, pigs, water, air — How did the bacteria find the romaine? By Coral Beach  Investigators continue their tedious search for the source of the E. coli that apparently contaminated romaine lettuce, causing this spring's deadly outbreak. But it's becoming increasingly unlikely they will find a smoking gun. The human toll so far, including one person in California who died, is 132 confirmed cases, 72 hospitalizations, and 20 people with... Continue Reading
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