A McDonald’s restaurant in New York is being sued by at least one diner after it was confirmed that an employee, who handled the food there, has hepatitis A.
Reuters noted the case was confirmed one Nov. 13 and the plaintiff in the lawsuit filed on Wednesday is Christopher Welch. In the suit, Welch said that he ate at the Waterloo restaurant on a daily basis and at times when the infected worker was on.
The class-action suit was filed in Seneca County against Jascor Inc., which owns the particular eatery that could have exposed as many as 1,000 customers to hepatitis.
Although health officials said that the probability of having contracted the virus is low, they asked that all those who ate at that McDonald’s earlier this month get treated just in case. The Seneca Health Department has said that it will provide hepatitis A vaccines at no cost.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hepatitis A is a liver infection transmitted through the “fecal-oral route, either through person-to-person contact or consumption of contaminated food or water.”