 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Hepatitis / July 2009McDonald's Worker May Have Exposed 10,000 to Hepatitis A
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. Officials are offering free preventive treatment to people possibly exposed to hepatitis A at a McDonald's restaurant near the Quad Cities. Kevin Murphy operates the McDonald's restaurant in Milan. He says the restaurant learned from health officials on July 13 that one of his workers had been diagnosed with the virus. That worker was diagnosed June 17. State health officials say they didn't know about the case until July 13, and authorities are trying to figure out why the case went unreported for so long. Another infected Milan McDonald's employee came to work on seven days in July, possibly spreading the virus to patrons. It isn't clear when health officials or McDonald's learned about the second worker. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534103,00.html Are they just assuming that this person bled into food! Are you not allowed to work in the food industry with hep-c? This sounds like a typical "fox" overblown panic story. You know how they report sh.t. "Coming up after our break, Did you get hep-c from your local Rotten Ronnies. 10,000 thousand possible cases. Now a message from the truley amazing GOP. > ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Officials are offering free preventive treatment > to people possibly exposed to hepatitis A at a McDonald's restaurant [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534103,00.html > Are they just assuming that this person bled into food! Are you not > allowed to work in the food industry with hep-c? This sounds like a [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> >> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534103,00.html The story concerns hepatitis A. I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, that hepatitis A is otherwise known as infectious hepatitis. It is transmitted through casual contact where hepatitis B and C are not. Hepatitis A is usually the most "benign" of the three while hepatitis C would usually be the most virulent. Persons with hepatitis A and B will normally clear them on their own, while persons with type C normally will not. So it would not be necessary for the worker to bleed into the food in order to transmit type A hepatitis. In fact bleeding into food is probably not the ideal way to spread any type of hepatitis. >> Are they just assuming that this person bled into food! Are you not >> allowed to work in the food industry with hep-c? This sounds like a [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > type A hepatitis. In fact bleeding into food is probably not the ideal way > to spread any type of hepatitis. Yes, this story is on hep A. "Infectious hepatitis" is an outdated term for hep B and C (before C was identified). Hep A is typically spread through contaminated food and beverages. Hep C requires blood-to-blood contact (vampires rejoice-- drinking hep C infected blood will NOT give you hep C). In some cases, but nowhere near the majority, Hep A, B *and* C can be cleared without treatment, by the body's immune system (with hep C, this will occur within the first six months of infection). WS Thats my bad. Did not read A-only see c's these days. cheers, >> Are they just assuming that this person bled into food! Are you not >> allowed to work in the food industry with hep-c? This sounds like a [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > type A hepatitis. In fact bleeding into food is probably not the ideal way > to spread any type of hepatitis. |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2009 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.