Personal Injury Law

"Hepatitis A" Tops Texas Vaccine Requirements For School-Aged Children

Posted on June 04, 2009
About a dozen states comply with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommendations for vaccines for school-aged children.   The states have the power to enforce vaccine requirements at the school house door. Since about 180,000 people become sick with Hepatitis A each year, and since that includes about 60,000 children, CDC recommends Hepatitis A vaccines for children entering Kindergarten for the 2009-10 school year...

Happy Hepatitis Awareness Day! Hepatitis A & B Are Preventable Diseases

Posted on May 20, 2009
Today (05/19/09) was Hepatitis Awareness Day in the United States and around the World. Many local health departments marked the occasion by offering free vaccines for Hepatitis A & B. From the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH), we pass on this Hepatitis Awareness Day statement: 'Liver disease is a serious public health issue in our nation, as it currently affects more than 30 million Americans...

Claims Settled In La Mesa's Chipotle Grill Hepatitis A 2008 Outbreak

Posted on May 03, 2009
  In late April 2008, San Diego County health officials announced that a number of Hepatitis A (HAV)infections had been traced to a Chipotle Grill restaurant in La Mesa, California, near San Diego. Officials advised customers who had eaten at the restaurant between March 1 and April 22 that they might be at risk for infection...

Produce Worker At Littleton, CO Albertson's Tests Positive For Hepatitis A

Posted on April 20, 2009
 Did you ever notice the people in the produce department at the grocery store are always the friendliest?  That's probably no comfort to customers at the Albertson's in Littleton, CO who are being told that if they consumed store produced produce they should think about getting Hepatitis A vaccine shots...

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Richard Miller - One Man's Hepatitis A Story

Posted on April 15, 2009
 In late October 2003, Beaver County ER doctors reported an alarming number of Hepatitis A cases. Investigators from the Pennsylvania Department of Health initiated an investigation immediately and discovered that many, if not all, cases had eaten at Chi Chi's restaurant in Monaca, Pennsylvania's Beaver Valley Mall...

Hard To Treat Diseases (HTDS) Offers Hepatitis A Vaccine in India

Posted on April 14, 2009
This release from a single company speaks volumes about the size of the Hepatitis A vaccine market in India, which has developed in only the last few years.  It says:  Hard To Treat Diseases (HTDS)  says its China based operating subsidiary Mellow Hope has surpassed sales of 200,000 units of Hepatitis A Vaccine in India...

VA Says Its Equipment Was Contaminated; Vets Testing Positive For Viral Infections, Including Hepatitis

Posted on March 27, 2009
  Boy, talk about another reason to get your Hepatitis A vaccine! The Veterans Administration (VA) has acknowledged that 16 patients exposed to contaminated equipment at its medical facilities have tested positive for viral infections, including hepatitis...

Bodies & Body Parts From War in Mexico Foul Imperial Beach Waters, But Surf Is Up!

Posted on March 17, 2009
The war in Mexico between drug dealers and the government last year saw more than 5,300 killed, including 843 just across border in the 120-year old city of Tijuana. Its neighbor to the north is Imperial Beach, CA. North and south of the Imperial Beach Pier is the Tijuana Estuary at the famed Boca Rio beachbreak...

Hep A Shots Advised If You Are In "Close Contact" With Newly Adopted

Posted on March 01, 2009

New Study Shows How Lasting Hepatitis A Shots Can Be

Posted on February 01, 2009
One time exposure to contaminated food can give you the debilitating illness of Hepatitis A. Now, however, comes word from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage that the antibodies against Hepatitis A keep working for up to 27 years after vaccination...

New Source of Information on Hepatitis A For MSMs

Posted on January 05, 2009
Hepatitis A is covered in a new education website launched by the American Social Health Association (ASHA) with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The target audience is: Men Who Have Sex with Men, which the social health group refers to as MSMs...

Chinese Tourists Will Not Bring Hepatitis A Outbreak To Taiwan

Posted on December 31, 2008
 We cannot say we were really worried about this one.   Regular tourism between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan has been underway since last July.  Apparently worry-warts have been concerned that the mainland tourists might spread Hepatitis A to residents of the island nation...

More Hepatitis A Now Expected In Maine

Posted on December 05, 2008
 Health professionals in Maine are on the lookout this week for more cases of Hepatitis A.  After a sixth school child was diagnosed with Hepatitis A it brought the total number of cases in the Kennebunk/Kennebunkport area to 12. Officials now think that someone who traveled overseas to an area where Hepatitis A is common brought the disease back to Maine and that is what caused others to get it...

Kennebunkport Still Does Not Have Hepatitis A Under Control

Posted on November 20, 2008
 After a fourth and now a fifth case of Hepatitis A turned up in the Kennebunkport Consolidated Schools, upset parents say they were not informed soon enough by school officials. According to Maine news site, seacoastonline. com: Following news that a fifth child has been diagnosed with hepatitis A, parents questioned the MSAD 71 School Board on Monday as to why all parents weren't notified after the initial outbreak at Consolidated School...

Maine Combats Hepatitis A Outbreak Involving School

Posted on November 07, 2008
The Maine Center for Disease Control yesterday ordered 170 students vaccinated for Hepatitis A. The shots were provided to those enrolled at the Kennebunkport Consolidated School after three children at the school were diagnosed with the virus in recent weeks...

Is A South African Province Covering Up Hepatitis A and Meningitis Outbreaks?

Posted on October 15, 2008
Whenever we get too critical of how quick and effective our governments are in North America when it comes to dealing in an up front and honest manner with we citizens, we have only look around the globe to understand how lucky we really are. After China put pressure of its trial lawyers to drop food-borne illness claims in the Melamine scandal, we turn to South Africa to find a provincial government that just wants a city to cover up a Hepatitis A outbreak and more...

Meet the Hepatitis A-Fighting Aquaduct Bike

Posted on October 08, 2008
Okay, the World Health Organization figures one billion people do not have access to any sort of improved drinking water source.  As a result, a growing number of health issues face developing countries such as diarrhoeal disease, schistosom`iasis, trachoma, intestinal helminths (ascariasis, trichuriasis and hookworm) and hepatitis A...

Syracuse University Tries To Keep Hepatitis A at Bay

Posted on September 05, 2008
Usually at this time of year, students are Syracuse University are only asked to put on their orange. This year, however, students and others who work in the food service are being asked to take a dose of hepatitis A vaccine after one server was diagnosed with the disease...

About Hepatitis A Food Poisoning

Posted on July 28, 2008
Hepatitis A is the only common vaccine-preventable foodborne disease in the United States (Fiore, 2004).  It is one of five human hepatitis viruses that primarily infect the human liver and cause human illness.  Unlike hepatitis B and C, hepatitis A doesn’t develop into chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis which are both potentially fatal conditions (Mayo Clinic, 2006); however, hepatitis A infection can still lead to acute liver failure and death...

Iowa Billiard Bar Survives Hepatitis A Scare

Posted on July 26, 2008
After a part-time employee with Hepatitis A sent hundreds to free vaccination clinics at the county health department,  Whitey's Bar and Billiards in Burlington, Iowa will be under new ownership after Aug. 16. On Friday, the Burlington Hawk Eye reported a happy end to the story: Business at Whitey's has taken a hit over the last two weeks after a part-time employee was diagnosed with hepatitis A July 11...

Hepatitis "A" Shots For Flood Cleanup NOT Required

Posted on July 07, 2008
In the aftermath of the flooding throughout much of the Midwest, health officials are advising those involved in the cleanup to get some shots, but not others.   Iowa's Henderson and Des Moines counties continue giving out tetanus shots -- also available at doctors' offices -- to people who have had close contact with the floodwaters...

Source of Cherokee Lake Outbreak of Hepatitis A Remains Unkown

Posted on June 04, 2008
In land that was once the independent country/state of Franklin, also known as Eastern Tennessee, the mystery continues. The Northeast Tennessee Regional Health District has not found the source of the Hepatitis A outbreak. The location is known, near beautiful Cherokee Lake and Mooresburg in Hawkins, County, TN...

Kentucky Says Hepatitis A Outbreak Is At Tennessee Lake

Posted on May 31, 2008
Cherokee Lake in Hawkins County, Tennessee is apparently Ground Zero for the Hepatitis A outbreak we reported on in the previous post.   The neighboring  Kentucky River District Health Department says there have been eight confirmed cases of hepatitis A from people who live in or have recently visited the Tennessee lake...

Free Shots After Seven Hepatitis A Cases Confirmed in "State of Franklin"

Posted on May 27, 2008
Traveling as we do, we often have time to learn about local history and why some places are different.  Take eastern Tennessee for example.   A remote territory of North Carolina before we broke with King George III, eastern Tennessee found it a...

A Second Lawsuit Filed Against Chipotle Mexican Grill

Posted on May 21, 2008
A second Hepatitis A lawsuit was filed today against Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., in San Diego County Superior Court. The complaint was filed on behalf of San Diego resident Rhonda Salgado, who was infected with Hepatitis A after eating food from the Chipotle Grill in La Mesa, California, between February and April 2008...

Chipolte Cyclists More Important Than Victims Of Hepatitis A To Its Hometown Newspaper

Posted on May 07, 2008
Denver is the hometown of Chipotle Mexican Grill.   So,  we are not surprised with the "homer" coverage the fast food chain is getting from Joyselle Davis, a business writer at the Rocky Mountain News.Within the same news cycle that Terry Wesley sued Chipotle for giving him Hepatitis A from eating at the Mexican fast food chain's outlet on Fletcher Parkway in Le Mesa,  Ms...

Looks Like It Was Chipotle Customers Making Other Customers Sick With Hepatitis A

Posted on April 29, 2008
You are looking at the inside of a typical Chipotle Mexican Grill.   It's a very clean-looking environment.   It's always a function of local management if the interior is really kept clean and the service running smoothly.   To be honest, we don't dine at Chipotles because we don't like standing in lines period, and these places are usually so popular that there lines are long...

Hepatitis A Outbreak At Chipotle Mexican Grill

Posted on April 23, 2008
Chipotle Mexican Grill is experiencing its second outbreak of the week, this one at La Mesa, CA involving Hepatitis A.   Fox 6 News reports:The San Diego Health and Human Services Agency and County Department of Environmental Health are investigating six cases of Hepatitis A linked to a La Mesa Chipotle restaurant...

Common Misspellings of Hepatitis A - hepatitus a, hepititis a, hepatitis e, hepetitis a, hepatatis a, hepatitisa, hepatits a, hepatites a, hepaititis a, epatitis a

Posted on April 18, 2008
Hepatitis A is one of five human hepatitis viruses (hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E) that primarily infect the liver and cause illness. An estimated 80,000 cases occur each year in the U.S., although much higher estimates have been proposed based on mathematical modeling of the past incidence of infection...

Want To Prevent Hepatitis A Outbreak? STAY HOME!

Posted on April 15, 2008
Contamination of food by an infected food worker is the most common mode of transmission of hepatitis A in food borne disease outbreaks (Guzewich 1999). A review of food-borne Hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States found that in many cases the infected food handler either did not seek medical care or delayed getting medical care (Fiore 2004)...

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