From Australian shelves of grocery stores urgently respond frozen berries, which has become a cause of human infection with hepatitis A.

As reported in the Ministry of health, registered in the country for nine cases of infection with hepatitis a virus, and once in three States: four people are sick in Queensland, two in New South Wales, three in Victoria.

Doctors were able to quickly establish that all these people were eating frozen berries company "Pettis foods, located in Victoria.

The company is the only local distributor of products: berries for her grow and freeze in Chile, and Packed in China. Executive Director Patti foods Steven Chor said that the company is fully cooperating with authorities in the investigation and together with partners from China trying to establish the exact cause of the contamination.

Representatives of the Australian branch of the International Committee of the red cross appealed to the people who are donors, urging them to refrain from donating blood in the next two months if they earlier this year, ate frozen berries firm Pettis foods. According to the ICRC, more than 100 Australians who regularly donate blood, said that in January-February, these berries are eaten.

Hepatitis a is a viral liver disease that is strongly associated with lack of clean drinking water, poor sanitation and lack of personal hygiene. Unlike hepatitis b and C infection hepatitis a does not cause chronic liver disease and rarely fatal, but can seriously weaken health and lead to fulminant hepatitis (acute liver failure), associated with a high mortality rate.