Saturday, 22 December 2012

Hepatitis C tests continue after NH tech's arrest


FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012 file photo, employees of the New Hampshire state health department set up a temporary clinic at the the middle school in Stratham, N.H., to test hundreds of people for hepatitis C related to an outbreak at nearby Exeter Hospital. Five months after a traveling hospital worker’s arrest in New Hampshire, a dozen former patients in other states have tested positive for the same strain of hepatitis C he’s accused of spreading. But thousands more have yet to be tested for the liver-destroying disease. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File) CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Hospitals across the country recommended hepatitis C testing for about 7,900 patients last summer after a traveling medical worker was accused of stealing drugs and infecting patients with tainted syringes in New Hampshire. But five months later, nearly half of those who were possibly exposed to the liver-destroying disease in other states have yet to be tested.








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