New Delhi, June 26 -- A former manager at an Arby's restaurant in Oklahoma is facing a felony charge after allegedly contaminating a customer's food by spitting on it while suffering from an active oral herpes outbreak, according to court documents and a civil lawsuit filed by the affected family.

The incident allegedly took place in late March at an Arby's outlet in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, where customer Jennica Church stopped at a drive-through after finishing a late-night bartending shift. Church and her family have since filed a lawsuit against the fast-food chain and former employee Amanda Hendricks, 38, alleging that the contamination resulted in Church contracting Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1), commonly known as oral herpes. ...