According to press reports, a food handler at a Somerset County ShopRite worked while infected with hepatitis A and may exposed shoppers to the highly contagious virus, health officials announced Monday
The employee, who worked that the Somerville store’s deli, was contagious between Oct. 13 and Oct. 30 so anyone who bought food from the deli should throw it away, according to a joint statement the New Jersey and Somerset County health departments.
Anyone who ate anything from the store’s deli between those dates and was not previously vaccinated against Hepatitis A should consider getting a vaccine as soon as possible, but no later than two weeks after eating food from this deli, the statement said. For most people, the latest date would be Nov. 13.
