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Article: Green Onions Suspected in Hepatitis Cases
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- November 19, 2003
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JOE MANDAK, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
11-19-2003
Dateline: PITTSBURGH
Steve Stanek, owner of Stan's Produce talks about how he doesn't have green onions for sale in his store in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2003. Stanek said he had a wholesaler offer him green onions earlier in the day for $3 a box, down from the $20 price before green onions were mentioned by health officials as a possible source of the recent hepatitis outbreak in western Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Green onions aren't high on many shoppers' lists these days in western Pennsylvania, where health officials say scallions may have caused a hepatitis A outbreak that has sickened at least 520 and killed ...