On the advice of Sweden's National Food Agency strawberries that came from Morocco and Egypt. have been taken off the store shelves at Ica Grocery stores.
In April, health authorities warned that a hepatitis A outbreak in Sweden could be linked to frozen berries. Experts with the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (SIC) advised berry lovers to take caution when consuming any strawberries bought in Sweden that were sold frozen.
At the time, there were 44 confirmed cases of hepatitis in the Nordic countries that could be traced back to the same source: 26 from Denmark, ten from Sweden, five from Norway and three from Finland.
This is the same strain of hepatitis that was found in the Townsend’s berry mix in the United States which lead to 136 cases of hepatitis..
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