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Beaver County, Pa., Hepatitis Outbreak Leaves Imprint on Residents.
Byline: David Wahlberg
Nov. 23--PITTSBURGH--A week after her husband died of hepatitis A he contracted at a restaurant, Christine Cook knew she had to return to normal life.
She had to take her two young daughters out to eat again. But she couldn't bear going near the Chi-Chi's at a mall five minutes from her home in Beaver County. It was at Chi-Chi's that her husband caught hepatitis, from a dinner of chicken and steak fajitas.
She drove Cassandra, 10, and Courtney, 8, past the county line to an Italian eatery near Pittsburgh. Cook ordered chicken fettucini, and the girls had spaghetti. Nothing Mexican. No green onions.
The family had eaten out hundreds of times before without thinking about whether the food was safe. Now it seemed risky --- and courageous. "I just told myself, 'I don't want them to have that fear," " said Cook, 35, an emergency room nurse.
Fear, and attempts to confront it, pervade Beaver County, where the nation's largest-ever hepatitis A outbreak has…
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