Customers at New Hawaii Sea restaurant in the Bronx are urged to get vaccinated
Monday, Sep 23, 2013 | Updated 9:48 AM EDT
NBC 4 New York
The
Health Department is urging customers who ate food from a Bronx
restaurant to get a vaccine for hepatitis A as soon as possible. Checkey
Beckford reports.
The Health Department is urging
customers who ate food from a Bronx restaurant to get a vaccine for
hepatitis A as soon as possible.
Officials say a worker and four
customers at New Hawaii Sea, a Chinese and Japanese eatery in the
Westchester Village section, have been infected with hepatitis A.
Customers who've eaten food from the
restaurant between Sept. 7 and Sept. 19 are urged to get a hepatitis A
vaccine as soon as possible. People typically develop symptoms of
hepatitis A about one month after they're exposed, but can prevent the
disease if they're vaccinated within 14 days of exposure.
Hepatitis A is spread by eating food
that has been contaminated by an infected person. Symptoms include
jaundice, fatigue, abdominal pain, nausea and diarrhea.
The restaurant is closed while workers get vaccinated, leaving some regular customers who showed up Friday worried.
"We came here like two weeks ago. You hear that, you get scared," said Chrissy England.
John Niccolls said he never expected the restaurant to be the center of an outbreak.
"It's pretty popular around here," he said.
England says the restaurant had recently renovated and "cleaned it up a lot."
New Hawaiian Sea received a B grade
in its last Health Department inspection in May, but received critical
contamination violations as recently as last year.
Checkey Beckford contributed to this report.
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