OMG, There's Hepatitis In New York City, Everybody Panic
 Friday, February 22nd, 2008

We're kidding about the everybody panic part, of course.

So speaking of Demi Moore, her hubby Ashton Kutcher's 30th birthday party turned into a media excuse to scare everybody some more about Hepatitis A.  The celebs in attendance at Kutcher's party at New York City nightclub Socialista  - including Madonna, Salma Hayek, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ivanka Trump, Bruce Willis, and others - are now being warned by the NYC Department of health to go get vaccinated for Hepatitis, according to a Health Department statement, after a bartender was found to be positive for Hepatitis A.

"In response to a case of Hepatitis A...at Socialista in Manhattan," yesterday's statement read, "[We] notified patrons of the exposure and urged them to get a Hepatitis A vaccination as a precautionary measure.  Hepatitis A is spread by putting something in one's mouth (even though it might look clean) that has been contaminated with traces of fecal matter from an infected person."

They estimate that 700-800 people were present between February 7th at 8:00 pm and on February 11th after 10 p.m., "the times the infected person worked after becoming infectious."

It's also safe to assume the nameless bartender has not only just found out he has Hepatitis, but has also been canned from his job.

But, hey, let's rush all the A-listers to the hospital to get shots, screw that dude!

I'm being sarcastic here, but honestly, the chances of anyone having been infected are equal to the chances of the infected bartender having taken a dump at work on one of those nights, gotten shit on his hands, not washing his hands, and then not only rubbing it on a glass but enough so that someone actually swallowed fecal matter without noticing it and got infected.

I'm also going to take a gander that a club as high-fallutin' as Socialista does not hire hygiene misfits to serve Dom Perignon.

Come on.

Everybody should get vaccinated for Hepatitis regardless, but there is no need to turn this single incident into paranoia self-destroya.  It makes us feel worst for that poor bartender.  What's he going to do with his life now?  Shunned!

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