{"id":289714,"date":"2025-11-17T21:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289714\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:49:10","slug":"burlington-restaurant-linked-to-hepatitis-a-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289714\/","title":{"rendered":"Burlington restaurant linked to hepatitis A case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A food handler at a Burlington restaurant has been confirmed to have Hepatitis A and may have exposed customers to the virus, public health officials say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The handler worked at the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/XZkszdChh7hhejWQ9\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/XZkszdChh7hhejWQ9\">Burlington Charcoal Pit<\/a> between Oct. 23 and Nov. 1, and Halton health authorities are advising anyone who visited the restaurant during that period to monitor for symptoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The restaurant is compliant with public health standards, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.halton.ca\/news\/media-releases\/2025\/halton-region-public-health-confirms-case-of-hepatitis-a-at-burlington-restaurant\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.halton.ca\/news\/media-releases\/2025\/halton-region-public-health-confirms-case-of-hepatitis-a-at-burlington-restaurant\">press release<\/a> from Halton Region Public Health . <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe likelihood of transmission is considered low. However, as a precaution, anyone who may have been exposed should watch for symptoms for up to 50 days,\u201d Associate Medical Officer of Health for Halton Region Dr. Patrick Galange said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hepatitis A is spread by \u201cputting something in the mouth that has been contaminated by a person that has the disease,\u201d health officials say. An infected person can spread the disease for two weeks or more before knowing they\u2019re infected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fever, dark urine, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, stomach cramps, and jaundice are all symptoms of Hepatitis A, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/diseases\/hepatitis-a\/symptoms.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/diseases\/hepatitis-a\/symptoms.html\">Public Health Agency of Canada<\/a>. Symptoms generally appear two to four weeks after exposure but may show up 50 days later. Symptoms can last for one week to nine months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A food handler at a Burlington restaurant has been confirmed to have Hepatitis A and may have exposed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-289714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289714","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=289714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}