Wrong doses of IgG given following Papa John’s-linked hepatitis A exposure

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Dealing with a hepatitis A event, even without illnesses, sounds like a headache. Between the lineups, paying for shots and bad press, things are messy.

And some of the management is out of a restaurant’s control.

Like administering the shots. WSOC-TV in Charlotte reports that some individuals who received post-exposure IgG shots for hepatitis A may have received the wrong dose.images-2

According to a Health Department spokesperson, “During the recent Hepatitis A vaccination clinics related to an ill worker at a Charlotte area Papa John’s, a small number of people were inadvertently given the incorrect dose of the vaccine. This means that in some cases an adult dose was given to a child or a child dose was given to an adult.”

Adults who received the child dose of the vaccine are being asked to return to the Health Department to receive the adult dose.

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.