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CDC: Hepatitis A Deaths are vaccine preventable – it is past time to vaccinate Food Service Workers

Bill Marler

The CDC misses the point; granted, food service workers are not more at risk of getting hepatitis A because of their occupation, but they are a risk for spreading it to customers. While food service workers are not traditionally designated as having an increased risk of hepatitis A transmission, they are not free from risk.

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CDC: Food Service Workers are a low, but not a no risk of Hepatitis A infection

Bill Marler

The risk for secondary infection from hepatitis A–infected food handlers to food establishment patrons in these person-to-person hepatitis A outbreaks was <1% ( 173 ). However, as a lawyer, I have seen first-hand the impacts on consumers exposed to HAV positive food service workers. J Infect Dis 1992;166:518–24.

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US Hepatitis A Outbreaks have sickened 44,947, hospitalized 27,469 and killed 424 – all preventable by a Vaccine

Bill Marler

The CDC misses the point; granted, food service workers are not more at risk of getting hepatitis A because of their occupation, but they are a risk for spreading it to customers. While food service workers are not traditionally designated as having an increased risk of hepatitis A transmission, they are not free from risk.

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Publisher’s Platform: It is past time to vaccinate food service workers against Hep A

Food Safety News

The CDC misses the point; granted, food service workers are not more at risk of getting hepatitis A because of their occupation, but they are a risk for spreading it to customers. While food service workers are not traditionally designated as having an increased risk of hepatitis A transmission, they are not free from risk.

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Effectively Targeting and Marketing to Gen Z

Modern Restaurant Management

This new year is a perfect time to begin shaping a long-term vision and identifying opportunities for growing your restaurant or food services business over the next ten years. The sheer market size of Gen Z and their discretionary spending dollars should make restaurants and food services businesses sit up and take notice.

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What is it with Cantaloupe and Bacteria?

Bill Marler

August 2012 – Wal Mart Stores, Inc. A multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to cantaloupes grown in southwestern Indiana has killed two people in Kentucky and sickened 141 people nationwide, the Kentucky Department for Public Health and the Indiana State Department of Health have confirmed to Food Safety News.

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Publisher’s Platform: Hepatitis A outbreaks have sickened tens of thousands and killed 424; all preventable by a vaccine

Food Safety News

The CDC misses the point; granted, food service workers are not more at risk of getting hepatitis A because of their occupation, but they are a risk for spreading it to customers. While food service workers are not traditionally designated as having an increased risk of hepatitis A transmission, they are not free from risk.