| As if we need another reason not to go to Mcdonald's, McDonald's is asking everyone who ate at a restaurant located in Greenlane, Auckland, New Zealand, in December of 2006, to go to their doctor after a worker tested positive for Hepatitis A.
Yikes!!!
Doctor Greg Simmons, medical officer of health in Auckland, said that it is Plausible that the food handler could have passed on the disease during as he would have been in the most infectious stage of Hepatitis A and was not wearing gloves. According to a someone from McDonald's, food handlers are not required to wear gloves but are required to wash their hands with antimicrobial soap. No word on whether this soap will make you want to east the nasty food. However Dr Simmons says that the infected worker usually wore gloves.
The shift the worker worked was the only one the worker handled food when he was infectious with Hepatitis A.
It is unknown how many people could have come into contact with food that the infected worker had prepared as Friday night is usually a busy night, according to Ms Redfern-Hardisty. But if you ate Mcdonald's you should probably have yourself checked out anyways, because God knows what was in the food.
Dr Simmons says that if someone has been infected with Hepatitis A then they will currently be showing early symptoms. Those symptoms include being tired, no appetite, nausea and skin and eyes will show a yellowish colour.
Ms Redfern-Hardisty, spokeswoman for McDonald's, confirmed that no more risk is being posed to customers, she would not comment when asked if the food itself could kill you.
The worker has been suspended from work. The Burgers have not.
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