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Jul 23, 2009 1:47 pm
US/Central
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Than 4,500 Get Shots In Hepatitis A Outbreak
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Article: http://wcco.com/wireapnewsia/More.than.4.2.1098092.html
ROCK
ISLAND, Ill. (AP) ― Twenty-two
people got sick and more than 4,500 people received preventive shots during a
hepatitis A outbreak that crossed from Illinois into Iowa.
Rock Island County Health Department spokeswoman Theresa Foes says about 200
people came in for shots Wednesday. And a vaccine clinic at Rock Island High
School drew more than 4,400 people Monday and Tuesday.
The outbreak included two Iowa cases. A spokeswoman for the Health Department
in Scott County, Iowa, says both people had eaten at a McDonald's restaurant
in Milan (MY'-luhn).
Two food handlers at the Illinois restaurant were among the sick, and a
McDonald's patron has sued the fast-food company.
McDonald's has said no one who was sick knowingly worked at the restaurant
after officials identified the problem.
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