Hepatitis Blog
"Surveillance and analysis on hepatitis news and outbreaks."
Author: Marler Clark is a Seattle law firm that also authors Cryptosporidium Blog, E. Coli Blog, Marler Blog, Food Poison Blog, Campylobacter Blog, Listeria Blog, Norovirus Blog, Salmonella Blog and Shigella Blog.
Blawg Related Categories: Consumer Law • Health Law • Tort Law • Injury & Accident Law • Product Liability Law • Law Firm
Recent Posts from Hepatitis Blog
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Trinity Hospital pays Rock Island County $80,000 for Hepatitis A Outbreak
According to the Quad-City Times, Trinity Regional Health System has paid $80,000 to Rock Island County to help reimburse unanticipated expenses related to this past summer's hepatitis A outbreak. Trinity Medical Center treated some of…
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Iowa Reports On Spike In Hepatitis A Cases Experienced Last Year
Iowa experienced a 294 percent increase in Hepatitis A cases over the previous three-year period, the state Department of Public Health reports. According to the annual Iowa Surveillance of Notifiable and Other Diseases report, the…
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Milan McDonald's Stays On the Menu At Rock Island Courthouse
Quad Cities residents are not going to soon forget the Hepatitis A outbreak at the Milan McDonald’s. An Alpha, IL couple, Nichole and John Shannon, became the latest to sue McDonald’s and Milan, IL franchise…
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Cluster of Hepatitis A Cases Linked To Maine's Remote Swan's Island Claims At Least One Life
Swan's Island is a 30-minute ride on the Captain Henry Lee, a 17-car ferry out of Bass Harbor, Maine. When you arrive after Labor Day, there are only about 350 people on the 7,000 acre…
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Free Hepatitis A Vaccines Offers To Imperial Beach Users
Outside of the Milan, IL McDonald's, the one place where you really should not be unless you have a Hepatitis A vaccine is Imperial Beach, CA. That's because northbound ocean currents funnel the polluted water…
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"It's Possible This Outbreak Is Not Over"--30 Now Confirmed With Hepatitis A
Another lawsuit on behalf of a customer sickened in the Milan McDonald’s outbreak was filed today in the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Rock Island County. The lawsuit was filed against McDonald’s…
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Milan, IL Hepatitis A Outbreak Broke One Month Ago Today At The McDonald's That Never Really Cleaned Up Its Act
One month ago today –before two of its employees exposed up to 10,000 people and infected at least 26 with Hepatitis A – the McDonald’s in Milan, IL would not have made the list for…
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Another Hepatitis Lawsuit Filed Against Illinois McDonald's - Third Legal Action in Outbreak Tied to Sick Food Worker
Another lawsuit on behalf of a customer sickened in the Milan McDonald’s outbreak was filed today in the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Rock Island County. The lawsuit was filed against McDonald’s…
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Quad City Health Officials Still Cleaning Up From Hepatitis A Outbreak
The Milan McDonald’s in Rock County, IL is doing normal business again, while health officials continue to clean up the Hepatitis A problem. Another confirmed case of Hepatitis A brings the count for the outbreak…
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Rock Island's Trinity Medical Center Steps Forward To Take Some Of The Blame For Milan McDonald's Outbreak
If confession is good for the soul, Trinity Medical Center’s Vice President for Hospital Operations Kathy Cunningham must be feeling better tonight. On behalf of hospital, she stepped forward today to admit Trinity dropped the…