Hepatitis Scare Spurs Administrators Into Action

Ever since federal officials announced last week that a batch of strawberries contaminated with hepatitis A had been shipped to schools in six states, school officials have been scrambling to vaccinate students who may have been exposed to the highly contagious liver disease.

So far, though, only Michigan residents are known to have been stricken by the virus.

Following an outbreak in Calhoun County, Mich., last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was able to trace the virus to a shipment of frozen fruit that a California food processor had supplied. One hundred students and eight school workers in the Marshall district had eaten strawberry shortcake in their school...