美國出現問題奶昔 已致40人感染甲肝
Virginia health officials say there are now 40 confirmed cases of Hepatitis A that are connected to frozen strawberries used at Tropical Smoothie Cafe locations across the state, up from 28 cases less than a week ago.
弗吉尼亞州衛生官員日前表示，已經有40例甲型肝炎病例確認與該州各處“熱帶冰品”簡餐室供應的奶昔中的冷凍草莓有關，這一數字在不到一週的時間就由28例增加到了40例。The Virginia Department of Health said in a news release that about 55 percent of the infected residents have been hospitalized.
弗吉尼亞州衛生部在新聞通報會上說，55%的被感染居民已經入院接受治療。
There are more than 500 of the smoothie franchises across the country, and Virginia is not the only state affected.
該州內有超過500家“熱帶冰品”的分店，而弗吉尼亞州也不是唯一一個受影響的州。
All the potentially contaminated Egyptian-sourced berries were pulled from the 96 Tropical Smoothie Cafe locations in Virginia no later than Aug. 8 or Aug. 9.
這些可能受到污染的草莓全部來自埃及，最晚已於8月8日到9日開始在96家分店下架。Officials say more cases could emerge, since some symptoms take as many as 50 days to emerge. The Hepatitis A virus affects the liver.
官員表示，目前可能還存在更多病例，因爲一些症狀的潛伏期達到了50天。甲型肝炎病毒會影響肝臟。
