We don't often hear about hepatitis during food recalls. Here's what you need to know.
With summer finally here, it’s the season for picking and eating fresh fruit, especially strawberries, which are in peak ripeness right now. However, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued warnings about a possible outbreak of hepatitis A that’s being investigated by both agencies.
The potentially affected strawberries may already be past their normal shelf life, but since consumers can freeze and use the fruit later on, the FDA and CDC are still warning people about the potential contamination of FreshKampo and H-E-B strawberries sold at the following locations in March and April:
Most people who contract the virus may only have a mild course of hepatitis A and not experience any sort of long-term liver damage. However, for some high-risk patients, including the elderly and patients with chronic liver disease, Hepatitis A can lead to liver failure and death. That is why it is important to understand hepatitis A symptoms and to get a quick, accurate diagnosis.
Of course, if you haven’t consumed these strawberries, simply throw them out and you are not at risk of getting sick from them. Even if you’ve kept the strawberries frozen you should throw them away, as the hepatitis A virus can even survive freezing temperatures.
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