Toronto Public Health (TPH) is advising the public of a possible Hepatitis A exposure at a downtown restaurant after an employee tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n
The health unit said those who dined at Earls Kitchen + Bar at 601 King St. W., at Portland Street, on the following dates and times may have been exposed:<\/p>\n
Friday, July 11 from 4 p.m. to closeSaturday, July 12 from 4:30 p.m. to closeTuesday, July 15 from 4:30 p.m. to close Wednesday, July 16 from 7 p.m. to close<\/p>\n
Diners who may have been exposed to the virus are being urged to get vaccinated as soon as possible. <\/p>\n
According to TPH, the vaccine is most effective when received within 14 days of exposure.<\/p>\n
Toronto Public Health added customers should watch for signs and symptoms, and wash their hands often and thoroughly with soap and warm water.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no ongoing risk to the public,\u201d TPH said in a release.<\/p>\n
Symptoms of Hepatitis A, which can cause a liver infection, and include fever, tiredness, loss of appetite, nausea\/vomiting, dark urine, stomach pains, and jaundice.<\/p>\n
\u201cSymptoms can last a few days to several months. Most people who are infected recover completely and develop lifetime immunity following infection,\u201d public health said, noting that death from Hepatitis A infection is rare.<\/p>\n
TPH is hosting free Hepatitis A vaccine clinics at Metro Hall on July 25 from 4 to 7 p.m. and on July 26 from 4 to 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Public Health (TPH) is advising the public of a possible Hepatitis A exposure at a downtown restaurant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-21441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}