NEW ZEALAND: 70 vaccinated for hepatitis A - (Otago Daily Times)
May 19, 2008 – 11:38 pmHepatitis A vaccinations have been given to about 70 people who were in close contact with a Korean waitress who had the disease while working in Queenstown.
Public Health South medical officer of health Dr Marion Poore said yesterday efforts were continuing to contact about 3000 people who were guests at the Copthorne Hotel and Resort Queenstown Lakefront between April 20 and May 3, the time when the waitress was at her most infectious.
Dr Poore said the hotel and tour operators were helping to locate these people, but most of them would have returned overseas to countries where the disease was endemic and it was believed many of them could be immune.
Fifty-six close contacts and co-workers of the waitress in Queenstown have received immunoglobin (antibodies) and vaccinations and a further 15 have received similar treatment in other parts of the country.
No further cases of the highly contagious disease have been notified […]
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