Recent Food-borne Hepatitis A Outbreaks

Number sickened in Hep A outbreak linked to scallops hits 252
(Hawaii News Now Staff; Update - September 7, 2016)
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/32680042/number-sickened-in-hep-a-outbreak-linked-to-scallops-hits-241

Hepatitis A Outbreak sickens 70; linked to imported frozen strawberries
(Healio Infectious Disease News; September 2, 2016)
http://www.healio.com/infectious-disease/gastrointestinal-infections/news/online/%7Ba127d24c-6b43-4201-8684-80ca14874325%7D/hepatitis-a-outbreak-sickens-70-linked-to-imported-frozen-strawberries

Selected Research Articles:

Processing Strategies to Inactivate Hepatitis A Virus in Food Products:  A Critical Review
(SÁNCHEZ, 2015)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/1541-4337.12154/asset/crf312154.pdf?v=1&t=istxcb79&s=6d5488103c2ec769d96b322a8625ef3a77c755fb

Large and Prolonged food-borne multistate Hepatitis A outbreak in Europe associated with the consumption of frozen berries, 2013 to 2014
(SEVERI et al., 2015)
http://edoc.rki.de/oa/articles/reZUrIrfAu7gc/PDF/25ajaRYALmWhk.pdf

Hepatitis A Transmitted by Food
(FIORE, 2004)
http://198.246.102.49/hepatitis/PDFs/fiore_ha_transmitted_by_food.pdf

Websites:

August 2016 - Multistate Outbreak of Hepatitis A linked to frozen strawberries 
[Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); September 1, 2016]
http://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/outbreaks/2016/hav-strawberries.htm

FDA Investigates Outbreak of Hepatitis A Illnesses Linked to Raw Scallops
(U. S. Food & Drug Administration; August 24, 2016)
http://www.fda.gov/Food/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies/Outbreaks/ucm517289.htm

Hepatitis A Fact sheet
[World Health Organization (WHO); July 2016]
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs328/en/