HONOLULU (AP) — Pharmacies in the Honolulu area have been inundated with requests for the Hepatitis A vaccine amid the state’s outbreak, which has sickened more than 200 people. ADVERTISING HONOLULU (AP) — Pharmacies in the Honolulu area have been
HONOLULU (AP) — Pharmacies in the Honolulu area have been inundated with requests for the Hepatitis A vaccine amid the state’s outbreak, which has sickened more than 200 people.
A drug store in Waikiki ran out of the vaccine Wednesday, while wait times at other pharmacies totaled 30 minutes to more than an hour.
State health officials have advised anyone who dined at Genki Sushi restaurants on Oahu and Kauai in the last two weeks to get a vaccine. They’ve identified frozen scallops served raw at the sushi chain as the probable source of the outbreak.
Officials confirmed 38 new cases of hepatitis A on Wednesday, bringing the total sickened by the virus in Hawaii to 206.
