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Article: Hepatitis Outbreak Linked to Green Onions
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- November 22, 2003
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JOE MANDAK, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
11-22-2003
Dateline: BEAVER, Pa.
Bill Komora, the owner of "Bill's Produce in the Strip" shows a couple bunches of green onions or scallions for sale in his store in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2003. Bill said that green onion sales have been off by about 50 percent since health officials mentioned them as a possible source of the recent hepatitis outbreak in western Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
A hepatitis A outbreak that has killed three people and sickened nearly 600 others who ate at a Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant was probably caused by green onions from Mexico, health officials said Friday. But how the scallions became ...