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Article: Green onions from Mexico linked to hepatitis outbreak
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- November 22, 2003
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BEAVER, Pa. - Tainted green onions blamed for a hepatitis A
outbreak at a Chi-Chi's restaurant that has killed three people and
sickened hundreds more were traced to Mexico - just like green onions
blamed for smaller outbreaks in Tennessee and Georgia, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention said.
CDC officials on Friday stopped short of saying that the green
onions in the Pennsylvania outbreak came from one of three Mexican
companies known to have supplied the onions blamed for the other two
outbreaks.
Nineteen people from West Virginia were sickened in the outbreak,
said Joe Thornton, a spokesman for the West Virginia Department of
Health and Human Resources.
The Food and Drug ...