An Australian woman has been killed by a pomegranate contaminated with hepatitis A

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• An Australian woman has died in a "rare and tragic" case.
• The 64-year-old contracted hepatitis A from a frozen pomegranate product.
• The product had been recalled two months ago.
• Deaths from hepatitis A are extremely rare — just one in 250 people who contract the infection suffer life-threatening complications.

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A 64-year-old Australian woman has died after eating a frozen pomegranate that was contaminated with hepatitis A.

The Australian-owned Creative Gourmet product she was eating had been recalled two months ago, according to the The Sydney Morning Herald. However, it can take between 15 and 50 days before symptoms of hepatitis A become apparent.

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