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The food in the United States is among the safest in the world, but recent outbreaks of hepatitis A remind us that foodborne illness remains an important public health concern. Between September and November 2003, outbreaks of hepatitis A were identified in Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. In total, these outbreaks included nearly 1000 cases. The Pennsylvania outbreak among patrons of a single restaurant was the largest outbreak of foodborne hepatitis A ever reported in the United States, with more than 600 infected persons identified to date, including 3 who died. Epidemiologic field investigations of restaurant-associated outbreaks in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, College Park, Md. (D.W.K.A.); and the Division of Viral Hepatitis, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (A.E.F.).

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