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January 06, 2008
How going out for 'decent meal' led to transplant for Beaver man
Tuesday, December 02, 2003By Christopher Snowbeck, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe waves of people turning up sick with hepatitis A have subsided, but at least one of them, Richard Miller, 57 of Beaver ...
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January 06, 2008
Water key suspect in hepatitis A outbreak
Inspections begin in Baja onion fieldsBy Diane LindquistUNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERDecember 2, 2003Contaminated water is one of the likeliest suspects as U.S. and Mexican inspectors yesterday began searching Baja California fields ...
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January 06, 2008
Hepatitis backlash hits mostly local, Mexican restaurants
By JOE MANDAKThe Associated PressPITTSBURGH - Mauri Alva has never served green onions in his El Campesino Mexican restaurant in Monroeville, or three others he's opened in western Pennsylvania over ...
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January 06, 2008
Hep Patient's Lawsuit Names U.S. Onion Suppliers
Yahoo! News - WTAEMon Dec 1, 2003Some U.S. companies that allegedly supplied tainted green onions from Mexico that have been linked to the hepatitis A outbreak are targets of a ...
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January 06, 2008
Mexican official says FDA rushed to judgment
Thursday, December 04, 2003By Lillian Thomas and Christopher Snowbeck, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe head of Mexico's food safety department says that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in its haste to affix ...
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January 06, 2008
Hepatitis cases rise to 635 in Beaver County
Thursday, December 04, 2003By Christopher Snowbeck, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe number of confirmed hepatitis A cases stemming from a Beaver County restaurant outbreak has risen to 635, an increase of 20 since ...
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January 06, 2008
U.S. Inspectors checking onion farms in Mexico
Tuesday, December 02, 2003By Christopher Snowbeck and Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteA team of U.S. investigators joined authorities in Mexico yesterday, hoping to determine what might have contaminated scallions that were ...
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January 06, 2008
Produce problems make FDA look weak
Critics fault agency's inspections, authoritySunday, November 30, 2003By Christopher Snowbeck, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe hepatitis A outbreak at a Beaver County restaurant is just the latest, and perhaps most serious, example of ...
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January 06, 2008
Chi-Chi's becomes tougher sell
Hepatitis outbreak only the latest of woes as chain awaits a buyerNovember 30, 2003By DAVID GOETZdgoetz@courier-journal.comThe Courier-JournalThe hepatitis A outbreak linked to a Chi-Chi's restaurant in the Pittsburgh area hasn't ...
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January 06, 2008
A polite but firm guardian
Friday, November 28, 2003By Lillian Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteOTAY MESA, Calif. -- Chief Inspector Rosa Hernandes, impeccable in her Customs and Border Protection uniform, perfect nails and makeup, is easy warmth ...
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January 06, 2008
She stays fit, keeps eye on outbreak
Friday, November 28, 2003By Anita Srikameswaran, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteDr. Virginia Dato is the picture of public health.Between a pager that does e-mail and a cell phone that's at the ready specifically ...
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January 06, 2008
Long, anxious wait follows post-wedding family dinner
Friday, November 28, 2003By Cindi Lash, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAfter spending 11 years and raising three sons together, April and Ed Davis decided in October that they'd waited long enough to get ...
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January 06, 2008
No slowdown, no changes at border
Friday, November 28, 2003By Lillian Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteOTAY MESA, Calif. -- Alma Guadalupe Gomez, an angel-faced 7 year old, sat with her baby brother in the cab of a blue ...
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January 06, 2008
From the fields of Mexico to Western Pennsylvania
Friday, November 28, 2003By Lillian Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMEXICALI VALLEY, Mexico -- "Really? These onions go to the United States?" asked Maria Mendive de Hernandez, 32. She has worked harvesting green ...
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January 06, 2008
Transplant teams take things one day at a time
'Lots of good memories and lots of bad memories'Friday, November 28, 2003Anita Srikameswaran, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteA few outbreak victims needed liver transplants because their own organs had been irreparably damaged by ...
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January 06, 2008
Hepatitis was the furthest thing from their minds
Friday, November 28, 2003By Cindi Lash, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteSurely it was just a cold.When the aches and chills hit him in mid-October, Kevin Costello told himself it was no big deal.As ...
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January 06, 2008
Hepatitis waning, but costs continue to climb
Money problems for families, businesses emergeThursday, November 27, 2003By Dan Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe hepatitis A outbreak that began with contaminated green onions is spreading to the green in your wallet.While ...
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January 06, 2008
In Mexico's onion fields, the work goes on
Uproar in U.S. is much discussed, but $12 a day is more importantThursday, November 27, 2003By Lillian Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMEXICALI VALLEY, Mexico -- Jorge Vidales and his wife, Estela, work ...
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January 06, 2008
'Smoking gun' in outbreak will be hard to find'
Thursday, November 27, 2003By Christopher Snowbeck, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteA team of four U.S. investigators will travel this weekend to investigate agricultural practices in the Mexican green onion industry, but a public ...
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January 06, 2008
Grower fears devastation unless source of virus found
Suprise and dismay at an operation described as a model for cleanlinessWednesday, November 26, 2003By Lillian Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteTIJUANA, Mexico -- The FDA's green onion blacklist leads to the door ...
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January 06, 2008
County cuts price of immunization shots for hepatitis A
Wednesday, November 26, 2003By Christopher Snowbeck, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteWith interest in the hepatitis A vaccine running high, the Allegheny County Health Department has slashed the price of immunization shots to guard ...
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January 06, 2008
Mexico closes 4 green onion exporters
Government calls action a precautionTuesday, November 25, 2003By Christopher Snowbeck, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe Mexican government has shut down four firms that export scallions to the United States for failing to comply ...
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January 06, 2008
Hepatitis outbreak a sobering reminder of vulnerability
By BYRON SPICENovember 24, 2003The hepatitis A outbreak that has killed three in Pennsylvania has provided a sobering reminder of just how vulnerable the world's food-distribution system is to either ...
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January 05, 2008
Victims' Attorney Asks Chi Chi's For Names Of Suppliers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 24, 2003Seattle attorney William Marler, in response to Chi-Chi's Press Conference on November 21, and the CDC's announcement on the same date that green onions served at ...
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January 05, 2008
Food-Borne Illness From Produce on the Rise
By MARIAN BURROSPublished: November 23, 2003To consumers who took nutritionists' advice seriously and began eating more fruits and vegetables, word that fresh green onions could carry the hepatitis virus came ...
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