A Bedford, Indiana restaurant worker has been infected with Hepatitis A.
The worker is employed at Marco’s Pizza in Bedford. Health officials say people who’ve eaten their in the third week of April need to see a doctor right away if they develop nausea, vomiting, stomach pain and fever. Symptoms can take up to six weeks to appear.
91 Hoosiers have gotten hepatitis A since November.
The case is one of the most recent.
Last month Indiana health officials started advising residents to get vaccinated for hepatitis A if their summer plans include visits to Kentucky or Michigan.
The Department of Health says significant outbreaks of the liver-damaging virus have been reported in Kentucky and Michigan.
Kentucky has seen more than 300 cases most of those in the Louisville area. Michigan has had more than 800 cases, including 25 deaths.
Indiana typically sees less than 20 hepatitis cases each year, but again there’ve been 77 have been confirmed since January, and 90 since November.
State Epidemiologist Pam Pontones says getting vaccinated for hepatitis A and thoroughly washing hands when preparing food are “simple, safe and effective ways” to prevent the spread of Hepatitis A.