{"id":947,"date":"2013-11-14T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=947"},"modified":"2013-11-13T17:05:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:05:59","slug":"hepatitis-a-organic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/11\/hepatitis-a-organic\/","title":{"rendered":"Hepatitis A outbreak thanks to &#8216;organic&#8217; seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/b0ea22107a6c97782fa355c99e074f8d\/tumblr_mw82j0B1cT1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Multistate outbreak of hepatitis A virus infections linked to pomegranate seeds from Turkey (Final Update)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hepatitis\/outbreaks\/2013\/a1b-03-31\/index.html\">Who&#8217;d say<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!--more-->As of September 20, 2013, <strong>162 people were confirmed to have become ill from hepatitis A after eating \u2018Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend\u2019<\/strong> in 10 states: Arizona (23), California (79), Colorado (28), Hawaii (8), New Hampshire (1), New Jersey (1), New Mexico (11), Nevada (6), Utah (3), and Wisconsin (2). [Note: The cases reported from Wisconsin resulted from exposure to the product in California, the cases reported from New Hampshire reported fruit exposure during travel to Nevada, and the case reported in New Jersey was a household contact of a confirmed case from Colorado.] Six of the confirmed cases were household contacts of confirmed cases (secondary cases).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently the <strong>outbreak is over now<\/strong>. This has never happened with GMOs, but keeps happening with so-called &#8216;organic&#8217; food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;d say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,112,237,97],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-organic","tag-food","tag-health","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}