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Detroit area is dealing with a significant Hepatitis A outbreak. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) reports 630 known cases in Southeast Michigan in 2017, twenty of them resulting in death. There were 150 cases diagnosed in the city of Detroit alone last year. Public health officials are especially troubled by the number of food handlers who have been infected with the disease. The Detroit Health Department has been sending out alerts, warning the public about restaurants with infected food handlers. On October 30 they announced they were investigating two separate cases of Hepatitis A, one at...

May 1, 2009 -- Fourteen Hydroxycut products, marketed as fat burners, low-cost diet aids, and energy enhancers, are being recalled voluntarily by the manufacturer after the FDA received 23 reports of serious liver injuries ranging from jaundice to death. The FDA announced the recall today at a news conference. The recalled products include: * Hydroxycut Regular Rapid Release Caplets * Hydroxycut Caffeine-Free Rapid Release Caplets * Hydroxycut Hardcore Liquid Caplets * Hydroxycut Max Liquid Caplets * Hydroxycut Regular Drink Packets * Hydroxycut Caffeine-Free Drink Packets * Hydroxycut Hardcore Drink Packets (Ignition Stix) * Hydroxycut Max Drink Packets * Hydroxycut Liquid...

WATSONVILLE — Less than 24 hours after the California Department of Health Services issued a warning for consumers to beware of lead-contaminated Mexican candy, a Santa Cruz County health inspector Thursday found buckets of the candy inside a small store in Watsonville. John Hodges told the owner, Gil Garcia of Productos Diana, to remove the candy from the shelves until tests are conducted by the state to see how much lead is in it — if any. The owner of the store, located in the back of the Watsonville Discount Mall at Beach and Rodriguez streets, immediately complied, saying he...

Oxford- When a staff member at Penns Grove Intermediate School was found to have active tuberculosis, the Chester County Health Department as to test the entire school, including those who had not spent time with that person. Out of the 537 students and staff tested, Superintendent Mary Jane Gales reported that there are 21 positive results. That is just 3.7 percent of those who were tested, a lower figure than the 5 percent to 8 percent that would be expected in the general population. "We are well below (the average) but of course, it is still a concern to us,"...

Anti-terrorist police are questioning six men after discovering traces of the highly toxic poison ricin in London. The toxin, to which there is no antidote, has been linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. It causes massive damage to internal organs, and normally kills within three days of ingestion. The men are of north African origin. They were arrested after an operation by the anti-terrorist branch in north and east London on Sunday. Scotland Yard said equipment and materials were found at an address in Wood Green in north London, where one of the man was also arrested. A...