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Las Vegas Clinic was Typhoid Maryesque

Category: Health
Posted on: March 6, 2008 5:16 PM, by Greg Laden

A public service announcement for those of you living in or passing through Nevada:

Vegas Clinic May Have Sickened Thousands from PhysOrg.com
(AP) -- Nearly 40,000 people learned this week that a trip to the doctor may have made them sick. In a type of scandal more often associated with Third World countries, a Las Vegas clinic was found to be reusing syringes and vials of medication for nearly four years. The shoddy practices may have led to an outbreak of the potentially fatal hepatitis C virus and exposed patients to HIV, too.

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