My home town newspaper the Houston Chronicle had an article in it today about a clinic in Las Vegas where people may have contracted Hep C and a host of other diseases due to inexcusable practice. The CDC is in the process of tracking all the patients down.
The Chronicle reports:
"The city of Las Vegas shut down the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada last Friday after state health officials determined that six patients had contracted hepatitis C because of unsafe practices including clinic staff reusing syringes and vials. Nevada health officials are trying to contact about 40,000 patients who received anesthesia by injection at the clinic between March 2004 and Jan. 11 to urge them to get tested for hepatitis C, hepatitis B and HIV."This is probably the biggest case of blood borne exposure in history. I was thinking this could have been caused by some other type of accident but not something as negligible as the reuse of dirty syringes.
The governmental and legal implications of this case are mind boggling. I can almost see the commercials law firms are going to roll out....
Picture a elderly man with perfect grey hair sitting on the edge of a desk with shelves full of leather bound law books behind him,
"Have you ever had a endoscopy.....Have you ever had an injection of any sort.....?"
You can read the article here.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/health/5589275.html
P.s. Today my man Ron Paul defends his seat in congress. Good luck!
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DO IT!