Sports Illustrated Apologizes For All The Diarrhea

If the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition didn't have enough problems already — sorry, guys, it's not 1985 anymore; you have no idea how much more access we have to naked people now — it appears now they've got another issue: When you think of the SI swimsuit edition, you just have to think of Hepatitis A.

Guests at Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue party on Feb. 14 and a dozen other events may have been exposed to Hepatitis A, which was diagnosed in an employee of Wolfgang Puck Catering, authorities said Tuesday. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health urged anyone who ate raw food at the Sports Illustrated event, held at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, to receive an immune globulin shot by Wednesday.

Anyone with symptoms — hepatitis A has the best symptoms, by the way: Vomiting, diarrhea, darkened urine, jaundice — is ordered to contact their doctor immediately, and anyone who was there should probably get a shot anyway. Sports Illustrated released a statement saying they are taking the situation very seriously and that in no way will Jenn Sterger's columns be affected.

By the way, we're fairly certain Steve Rushin poisoned the food.

Hepatitis A Warning For SI Party [SI.com]