81 Cancer Patients Test Positive for Hepatitis C
From Times Wire Reports
At least 81 people treated at a cancer clinic in Fremont have tested positive for hepatitis C in an outbreak that may have been caused by a contaminated vial of medicine, health officials said.
Dr. Tom Safranek, the state epidemiologist, said poor medical practices at Dr. Tahir Javed’s clinic may be to blame.
It is possible that a clinic worker used a syringe to administer medicine to a patient who had hepatitis C, then drew more medicine from the same vial for the patient with the same syringe, Safranek said.
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