Nothing good ever gets put in your mouth in church.Case in point - roughly 1300 parishioners of a Long Island church may have been exposed to hepatitis A when they received communion during services on Christmas day. Now there's a lump of coal for ya!
According to the Nassau County Department of Health, "a person involved in the Communion process has tested positive for hepatitis A". Theye did not specify whether the infected person was a priest, altar boy or Eucharistic minister, but does it matter? New York health officials are asking anyone who attended services at 10:30 a.m. and noon on Christmas day at Our Lady of Lourdes Church to return to the church Tuesday or Wednesday to receive a vaccination to fight off infection of the disease. And good luck trying to get volunteers for the Sunday school pot luck after this.
Hepatitis A can lead to flu-like symptoms such as severe nausea, diarrhea and fever, but isn't considered to be as deadly as hepatitis B and C, which can lead to chronic liver disease. Hep A is most commonly transmitted through food when an infected person fails to wash their hands before handling/preparing the food, particularly after they've gone to the bathroom.
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