Friday, 13 August 2021

PRO/EDR> Hepatitis A - Australia: (NS) imported dates, alert, recall

Hepatitis A -- Australia
Australian officials have reported 3 hepatitis A infections linked to dates imported from Jordan. The strain is identical to the one that caused an outbreak of hepatitis A in the United Kingdom earlier in 2021, which was also caused by fresh Medjool dates from Jordan. Dates were recalled by Sainsbury's and Marks and Spencer.
In the UK, at least 30 people fell ill in different parts of England with one person sick in Wales. They had a median age of 60 and ranged from 6 to 93 years old with

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8590496&promed&0

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