Thousands Are Warned of Clinic’s Dirty Syringes

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LAS VEGAS — Thousands of patients may have been exposed to the hepatitis C virus because of an inappropriate medical practice at an outpatient clinic here over the past four years, state health officials said Wednesday.

After six patients who were anesthetized at the clinic last year were given diagnoses of acute hepatitis C, a Clark County investigation observed that the clinic was not using clean syringes for each injection.

Clinicians giving patients multiple shots of certain medications were using the same syringes to dip back into the vials, allowing for the chance of an infected patient’s virus to contaminate the medication for others, said Brian Labus, senior epidemiologist of the Southern Nevada Health District

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this is amazing to me. new syringes cost next to nothing and this clinic doesn't even bother to use new ones on different patients.

i can honestly say that if a member of my family was going there and this happened. the people at the clinic would have more to worry about then just the law. i would hunt those fuckers down.

[Shibby]

At the pharmacy where I work we give out needles and syringes like candy. That's just pure laziness on the clinics part.