Friday, February 27, 2009

CORRECTED - UPDATE 1-US panel widens recommendations on hepatitis A jab | Deals | Regulatory News | Reuters

"CHICAGO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - U.S. citizens who expect to have close contact with an adopted child from countries with high rates of hepatitis A should be immunized if they have not been already, U.S. immunization advisers said on Wednesday."

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Man with hepatitis sentenced for spitting at officer - Local & State - Macon

"A Macon man was sentenced to serve five years on probation and between 180 and 300 days in a detention center after pleading guilty to spitting in a police officer’s face, knowing he had hepatitis C, according to the Bibb County District Attorney’s Office."

World Briefing - Europe - Britain - Report on Infected Blood Sidesteps Blame - NYTimes.com

A long-awaited report on Monday described the use of contaminated blood products in Britain’s National Health Service in the 1970s and ’80s, infecting thousands of hemophiliacs with H.I.V., hepatitis and other conditions, as a “horrific human tragedy” and “the worst treatment disaster” in the 60-year history of the publicly financed health system."

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