date:Jul 08, 2013
Four more rare hepatitis A virus cases in the United States were linked over the weekend to Turkish-grown pomegranate seeds by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, raising the total number of cases in the current outbreak to 140 in eight states.
The outbreak strain of the hepatitis A virus is not usually found the United State. The genotype is rarely seen anywhere in Americas, but rather it circulates in North Africa and the Middle East.
Two additional cases