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The Food and Drug Administration\u00a0said in a statement\u00a0<\/a>May 28 that at least 17 people in the U.S.\u00a0had been infected with hepatitis A<\/a>, likely because of the strawberries. Twelve of those people were hospitalized.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Stanley M. Lemon<\/a>, MD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases<\/a>, weighed in on the rarity of hepatitis outbreaks with The Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not an everyday occurrence,\u201d he said, \u201cbut it\u2019s certainly not unusual for this to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

From 2009 to 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified 37 hepatitis outbreaks that sickened 911 people and killed six. Since 2013, notable outbreaks have been connected to\u00a0pomegranate seeds imported from Turkey<\/a>,\u00a0raw scallops in Hawaii<\/a>,\u00a0frozen strawberries imported from Egypt<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0fresh blackberries mainly in the Midwest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While hepatitis A can spread among people, it is unlikely that the strawberries would cause a huge outbreak unless a food handler was infected, Dr. Lemon said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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