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The Los Angeles Public Health Department has recognized an worker with a case of hepatitis A at a Whole Foods in Beverly Hills, California.

Officials are investigating the matter and haven’t but recognized extra circumstances, the division stated on Friday, from the shop on N. Crescent Drive.

Due to the worker’s obligations, prospects who bought merchandise from the seafood counter part between 20 April and 13 May ought to search a hepatitis A vaccine, the division introduced.

“Receiving vaccination as soon as possible after exposure could help reduce the risk of developing hepatitis A infection,” the division stated.

Hepatitis A is a liver an infection that may “range from a mild illness lasting a few weeks to a severe illness lasting several months.” In uncommon circumstances, the illness could be deadly, in keeping with the division.

Whole Foods will probably be working carefully with the division to guard workers and prospects, a spokesperson for the corporate instructed The Independent.

“The team member diagnosed is not working, and we are not aware of anyone else becoming ill,” the spokesperson stated. “While we have strict food safety processes in place in our stores, we encourage anyone who believes they may have been exposed to follow the guidance of the health department.”

In 2022, a hepatitis outbreak left 5 kids useless and greater than 100 with extreme liver illness throughout a number of states.

The 12 months prior, a New Jersey Starbucks worker who examined constructive for hepatitis A might have uncovered upwards of 1,000 individuals to the illness.

In response, the state administered some 800 vaccines to individuals who might have been in danger.