Hepatitis A in restaurant clientele and staff--Quebec.

A case of hepatitis A reported in a foodhandler working in a public place demands public-health intervention to protect fellow workers and customers from contracting the disease. The following is a report of an outbreak of hepatitis A that began with a foodhandler and subsequently involved several regular customers of a restaurant located in the Direction de la santé publique de la Montérégie (DSP-M) area. This outbreak comments on certain aspects of the public-health intervention measures that were used to prevent the transmission of the disease.