Hepatitis A Spike in Massachusetts

(Boston, Massachusetts) Restaurant workers at three different establishments in the Boston area have tested positive for the highly contagious hepatitis A virus. A waitress at J.J. Grimsby's in Stoneham joins possible hepatitis A exposures at an Arlington Friendly's and a Boston Quiznos. Public health clinics have been set up to administer immune globulin to patrons of the restaurants who may have been infected.