Hepatitis A outbreak strikes Princeton Hispanics

“A hepatitis A outbreak, with three active cases, struck some members of Princeton’s Hispanic immigrant community beginning Sept. 20, and the final vaccinations were not administered until Oct. 13 because of some immigrants’ distrust of health officials.
Princeton Regional Health Department officials experienced difficulty immunizing what they call “close contacts” ”” those who might have shared food with the affected patients, all of whom were children ”” because both documented and undocumented immigrants shied away from working with health officials.”

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