Outbreak of food-borne type-A hepatitis in Greater Glasgow

In a fourteen-day period between December, 1974, and January, 1975, 12 out of 118 members of a Glasgow golf club, who had attended their annual dinner/dance at a popular hotel in Glasgow six weeks previously, developed acute icteric hepatitis. Epidemiological investigations suggest that the infection was due to contamination of the cream used in fruit salad and sherry trifle prepared by a pastry-cook at a time when he was incubating type-A hepatitis.