HEALTH WARNING: Area Restaurant Worker Prepared Food While Infected With Hepatitis A

From Local Sources 

VINCENNES -- A Knox County restaurant was forced to close for cleaning after a worker prepared food while infected with Hepatitis A.

Health officials say it happened at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Vincennes.  The employee worked sick June 30^th and July 1^st.

According to the health department, while it is rare for a person to become infected from a sick food handler, anyone who ate at the restaurant during that time frame should get the HEP A vaccine.

A free vaccination clinic will be held in Vincennes on Friday from 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Knox County Health Department.

Symptoms of Hepatitis A include loss of appetite, nausea, tiredness, fever, stomach pain, brown-colored urine and light-colored stools.

You can become sick up to 7 weeks after exposure.