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>Students in six states may have been exposed to tainted strawberries
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>Copyright c 1997 The Associated Press
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>LOS ANGELES (Apr 2, 1997 1:25 p.m. EST) -- Schoolchildren in six states may
>have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus by eating contaminated frozen
>strawberries that had been shipped as a part of a federal school lunch
>program.
>
>So far, the only reported illnesses linked to the tainted berries were in
>Michigan, where about 151 students and teachers have been sickened,
apparently
>after eating strawberries provided at lunch, federal authorities said.
>
>In Los Angeles, up to 9,000 youngsters and adults may have been exposed.
>School and health officials determined that fruit cups served last week in 18
>Los Angeles public schools may have been contaminated with the virus.
>
>As a precaution, California health officials planned to offer protective
gamma
>globulin shots later this week.
>
>"It's not a panic situation," said Dr. Shirley Fannin, Los Angeles County's
>director of disease control programs, noting that there is a 14-day
incubation
>period. "We're here within a week of consumption. We have another week to
>plan."
>
>Unlike more dangerous forms of the disease, hepatitis A causes a mild liver
>infection and is spread through uncooked food. Those at risk of more severe
>symptoms are the elderly, people with weak immune systems and the very young.
>
>For most people, symptoms appear about 28 days after exposure. They include
>jaundice, fatigue, abdominal discomfort, vomiting, fever and dark urine.
>
>The virus can be transmitted orally or through human waste, often by food
>handlers with poor personal hygiene, through undercooked shellfish from
>infected waters or through tainted water or ice.
>
>Gamma globulin is effective before exposure and within two weeks after.
>
>Tom Amontree, communications director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture
>in Washington, said Tuesday that 17 states might have been shipped tainted
>strawberries and were asked to "put a hold" on the fruit, which came from the
>same company.
>
>But today, the agency and the Food and Drug Administration said only six
>states -- Michigan, Arizona, California, Georgia, Iowa and Tennessee --
>received berries believed linked to the outbreak because all bore the same
lot
>number. Nine other states and the District of Columbia received shipments
from
>the same company but the berries had different lot numbers, the agencies
said.
>
>Those states are Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, New York,
>North Carolina, North Dakota and Wisconsin.
>
>The California Department of Health Services determined the strawberries were
>grown in Mexico, then frozen and processed by Andrew and Williamson Sales of
>San Diego last spring. The agency said the strawberries were shipped for bulk
>distribution to USDA-sponsored school lunch programs in December.
>
>Ken August, a spokesman for the California Department of Health Services,
said
>that after receiving the frozen strawberries, the L.A. school district sent
>them on to another company that "added strawberries and blueberries to the
>frozen sliced strawberries and made it into the dessert."
>
>Mary Hagen, manager of investor relations for Epitope Inc. of Beaverton,
Ore.,
>the parent of Andrew and Williamson, said today that Epitope isn't sure what
>caused the problem. Epitope officials are at the San Diego subsidiary today
>looking into it.
>
>"The problem could have occurred at any number of levels," she said. "It
could
>have been at the growers or in the packaging or in the processing somewhere.
>The company is looking into everything."
>
>Efforts are made at the packaging plant to make sure the strawberries are
>clean, Hagen said.
>
>Epitope recalled 13 lots of frozen berries shipped by Andrew and Williamson
>early in December 1996, shortly before Epitope acquired the company.
>
>"The health and well-being of the public is Andrew and Williamson's foremost
>concern," Epitope President Adolph J. Ferro said Tuesday in a statement.
>
>Iowa officials warned that about 300 of Iowa's schools may have served the
>fruit as recently as last week.
>
>In Michigan, 128 cases of hepatitis A have been confirmed in two counties.
Bob
>Howard, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's
>National Center for Infectious Diseases, said an investigation has "strongly
>implicated" a single batch of strawberries.
>
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