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Article: Green Onions Are Culprit in Pennsylvania Hepatitis Breakout, Officials Confirm.
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- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Article date:
- November 22, 2003
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Byline: David Wahlberg
Nov. 22--PITTSBURGH--Health officials on Friday confirmed green onions as the source of the nation's largest-ever outbreak of hepatitis A, sickening 575 people and killing three the past month in a cluster of working-class towns about 20 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
Contaminated green onions also led to hepatitis A outbreaks this fall that struck about 250 people in the Atlanta and Macon areas, plus 80 people in Knoxville, and more than a dozen in Asheville, N.C. Health officials have said those three outbreaks are almost certainly linked.
Officials from the Pennsylvania Health Department and the Atlanta-based Centers ...