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Volume 353:2300-2301 November 24, 2005 Number 21
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Hepatitis A Associated with Green Onions

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To the Editor: The report by Wheeler et al. (Sept. 1 issue)1on an outbreak of hepatitis A arouses concern because of the number of people infected from a single contaminated food and because of the severity of the disease, reflected in the rates of hospitalization (26 percent) and fulminant hepatitis (0.7 percent). All 13 of the restaurant employees with a positive test for the IgM antibody to the hepatitis A virus had symptomatic hepatitis, whereas none had mild or asymptomatic infection. As stated in the accompanying editorial by Di Giammarino and Dienstag,2 the older age of people with the . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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