Frozen berries the cause of 22 Hepatitis A infections in Sweden

frozen-berriesFrozen berries may have been the cause of 22 Hepatitis A infections in Sweden since December. This is far more than five that is the average number of contagion incidents in Sweden in the same timeframe. Experts from The Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control has advised berry lovers to take to be careful when they buy all kinds of frozen berries.”If you cook them for at least one minute then all the contagion will die or disappear,” Margareta Löfdahl, epidemiologist from the Institute, told the TT news agency.Hepatitis A is an infection of the liver. It can be prevented by vaccination, and experts at SMI have recommended Swedes remember to maintain good hygiene.