Hepatitis Outbreak Spurs Inoculations in 5 States

Education and health officials in five states inoculated thousands of students and school staff members last week after investigations revealed that frozen strawberries served in school lunches came from the same lot that spurred an outbreak of hepatitis A in Michigan schools.

U.S. Department of Agriculture officials announced earlier this month that a batch of tainted strawberries responsible for more than 150 cases of hepatitis A among students and school workers in Michigan had been dispatched to schools in Arizona, California, Georgia, Iowa, and Tennessee as part of the agency's school lunch program.

So far, only Michigan residents are known to have been exposed to the highly contagious liver disease. ( "Hepatitis Scare Spurs Administrators Into Action," ...