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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health it investigating a hepatitis A outbreak among the homeless population.
May 14, 2024
Officials said they were investigating a reported case of hepatitis A affecting an employee of a Beverly Hills Whole Foods, just days after announcing that several cases had been detected among unhoused people in L.A. County.
May 17, 2024
An ailing inmate worker in the kitchen at Men’s Central Jail unwittingly exposed thousands of detainees to hepatitis A before medical staff discovered what was wrong with him, triggering a vaccination campaign last year.
Feb. 16, 2024
The agency issued a notice alerting customers who visited a Panda Express in Lancaster between July 21 and Aug. 4 after a food handler was found to have the virus.
Aug. 13, 2023
World & Nation
The Biden administration is seeking billions of dollars for a new push to wipe out hepatitis C, a virus that kills thousands of people annually in the U.S.
March 9, 2023
Jail officials said Friday that there are no other suspected cases, but it’s unclear how many people might have been exposed during the two-week viral incubation period.
June 2, 2023
Hepatitis C can now be cured in most cases with antiviral medication. Yet in the U.S., only a fraction of people who are found to be infected promptly start treatment.
Jan. 1, 2023
Hepatitis C can be cured in most cases with a few months of medication. The number of Medi-Cal patients getting the treatment dropped during the pandemic.
Jan. 22, 2023
Stockton’s McLeod Lake turned pink this week, as scientists dumped dye in the hope of figuring out why there are toxic algal blooms some years but not others.
Aug. 29, 2024
Organic strawberries branded FreshKampo or HEB may be linked to 17 cases nationwide, including 15 in California.
May 31, 2022