Oyster can give you hepatitis From 1983-1989, the incidence of hepatitis A in the United States reached 58 percent. Some 35,800 cases were reported last year.
Several outbreaks have been linked that occurred in Alaska, Florida, North Carolina, and Washington. The contaminants include, among others, a frozen drink slush bought at a convenience store and iced tea prepared by a user of intravenous drugs that have infected some sandwiches and drinks in a restaurant.
frozen strawberries contaminated from a processing plant in California have been the cause of two separate outbreaks of hepatitis A in Georgia and Montana. In the first case, 13 students and two teachers from an elementary school have contracted the disease within two weeks after eating strawberry shortcake in the school cafeteria.
In Montana episode that took place in an institution for the mentally retarded, 13 contracted the disease during a period of three weeks after eating desserts made from frozen strawberries.
A Home in London early in 1989 involved more than 50 residents of a group of villages. This has been attributed to a boil in a bread store and its retail outlets by workers with dirty hands.
The philandering librarian Giovanni Giacomo Casanova recommended 50 oysters for breakfast for those eager to aphrodisiacs. But instead of getting the girl of your dreams, following advice that could give you hepatitis A.
The reason? Shellfish (oysters, mussels, cockles, clams or) are more likely to transmit the disease. Because shellfish filter large amounts of water and tend to leave large amounts of bacteria and viruses back, including the one responsible for hepatitis A.
This was the sad experience of China which had three separate outbreaks of hepatitis A in 1978, 1982 and 1988 - all attributed to the consumption of raw shellfish. The largest outbreak occurred in Shanghai in 1988, affecting about 300,000 people, with 45 deaths, according to Stephen C. Hadler of the Center for Infectious Diseases Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
"The first documented case. Outbreak of hepatitis A because of the ingestion of shellfish was reported in 1956 when 600 Swedes who had eaten oysters harvested from waters contaminated by sewage from the man contracted the disease . Since then, numerous outbreaks have been reported in Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia. If the cultivation and distribution of seafood is often carefully regulated, the nature of business is police laws extremely difficult. harvests are often provided to a variety of wholesalers who, in turn, offers a number of outlets. These factors, combined with the prolonged incubation period, make infection associated molluscs difficult investigate so that many may go unnoticed, "revealed Ian D. Gust in" the epidemiological characteristics of hepatitis A in different parts of the world ", published in the journal Vaccine.
Swimming Believe it or not makes you vulnerable to hepatitis A. This was reported by Dr. Frank J. Mahoney of the CDC in an article published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
In this article, Mahoney, 20 people aged four to 36 have died of hepatitis A in 1989 after swimming in contaminated water in a camp in Louisiana.
Before the start, swim to victims in two public swimming pools - Jacuzzi and a swimming pool for adults, said investigators have been contaminated with feces or raw sewage due to the design of pools, and unusual system filtering. Thus the behavior of swimmers (who, either through ingestion of water or spit in swimming) put at great risk of contracting hepatitis A.
"We believe that swimming pools may have been contaminated by fecal contamination is one of the swimmers.
Posted on February 10, 2010.
