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  • ILLINOIS: More lawsuits filed against Milan McDonald’s

    Posted: October 29th, 2009 - 10:05am

    Three more lawsuits have been filed against the owners of a Milan, Ill., McDonald's where several customers contracted hepatitis A this summer. The lawsuits were filed by the Rock Island law firm of Michael Warner J. Warner and Associates in Rock Island County Circuit Court. They each name JKLM, Inc., the franchise owner, as a defendant.

    Date Published: 
    28.oct.09
    Source Title: 
    Quad-City Times
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  • ILLINOIS: New McDonald hep-A lawsuits filed

    Posted: October 28th, 2009 - 8:29am

    ROCK ISLAND -- Three new lawsuits have been filed against the Milan McDonalds in connection with last summer's Hepatitis A outbreak. For the first time, the suits also name Trinity Health Systems and Metro Lab as ''respondents in discovery''. That means lawyers want to hear what the medical facilities knew and when, and could file suit at a later date.

    Date Published: 
    27.oct.09
    Source Title: 
    WQAD
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  • US: Trinity agrees to pay Rock Island County $80,000 for Hepatitis A vaccination expenses

    Posted: October 14th, 2009 - 12:05am

    ROCK ISLAND, Ill. -- Trinity Regional Health System has agreed to make a good faith contribution to Rock Island County to help the county recoup some of the expense it incurred in vaccinating the public for a recent outbreak of the Hepatitis A virus.

    Date Published: 
    13.oct.09
    Source Title: 
    WQAD
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  • AUSTRALIA: Health officer issues hep A warning

    Posted: October 9th, 2009 - 2:50pm

    http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2009/10/articles/hepatitis-a/clean-the-poop-off-hands-before-making-semidried-tomatoes-linked-to-spike-in-australian-hepatitis-a-cases/ Semi-dried tomatoes have been linked to several cases of people being diagnosed with hepatitis A in Victoria this week.

    Date Published: 
    09.oct.09
    Source Title: 
    The Age
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  • US: Sick employees still coming to work; fear jeopardizing jobs

    Posted: October 2nd, 2009 - 11:04am

    A stress-inducing recession, flu season and ever-increasing workloads.  It’s enough to make anyone sick even if they weren’t to begin with. Sick or not, however, Americans are still trudging into the office.

    Date Published: 
    01.oct.09
    Source Title: 
    SDNN
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  • ILLINOIS: More hepatitis A lawsuits filed against McDonald’s

    Posted: September 30th, 2009 - 2:55pm

    Six more lawsuits were filed today by Quad-City area residents against McDonald's Corp. over a hepatitis A outbreak this summer.

    Date Published: 
    30.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    Quad-City Times
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  • RHODE ISLAND: 40 years ago, hepatitis outbreak ended Holy Cross' football season

    Posted: September 25th, 2009 - 4:23pm

    There's been a lot of concern about the impact of swine flu on college campuses, and certainly the pandemic has had some effect already on college sports teams. But we certainly hope we'll never again see anything like what happened to the Holy Cross football team in 1969.

    Date Published: 
    25.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    Providence Journal
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  • CANADA: Hep myths put us at risk

    Posted: September 16th, 2009 - 2:07pm

    Thirteen years ago, Samantha Spencer ate a handful of fresh strawberries while on vacation and wound up with hepatitis A, a virus that infects the liver and is commonly associated with eating contaminated food. But Spencer was not away at a tropical, all-inclusive resort -- she was 15 years old and at a summer camp near Toronto.

    Date Published: 
    16.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    Canwest News Service
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  • ILLINOIS: Number of Hepatitis A cases now at 30

    Posted: August 12th, 2009 - 10:20pm

    The 30th case of hepatitis A from a summer outbreak of the disease in the Quad-City region this summer was reported today. The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Rock Island County Health Department reported the total number of cases, saying they are all related to people who visited a McDonald's restaurant at 400 W. 1st St., Milan, Ill., this summer.

    Date Published: 
    12.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Quad-City Times
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  • ILLINOIS: Summary: Sheriff's report on hepatitis A outbreak

    Posted: August 11th, 2009 - 10:57am

    This is a summary of the Rock Island County Sheriff's Department report on its investigation of the June-July hepatitis A outbreak as prepared by Sgt. Steven Ven Huizen:
    The Rock Island County Health Department learned of three hepatitis A cases July 10.
    Date Published: 
    10.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Quad-City Times
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