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By Aaron Sanborn
seacoastonline.com
May 31, 2012 2:26 PM
EXETER ? Exeter Hospital has closed its cardiac catheterization lab after four patients contracted hepatitis C. The hospital is also urging the 651 patients who have utilized the lab since August to come in for testing...
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.) Never forget Excalibur.
Exeter Hospital lab cleared to reopen on an emergency basis
By Aaron Sanborn asanborn@seacoastonline.com
June 01, 2012 5:17 PM
EXETER ? The Exeter Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab has been cleared by the state to resume operations on an emergency basis.
The cath lab has been closed since May 25 after four patients contracted the identical strain of hepatitis C.
With the cath lab being identified as the only common link between the four patients, the hospital also urged the 651 patients who have been treated at the lab since August to come in for testing.
Hospital officials say the cath lab is expected to resume normal operations early next week...
Four people originally contracted the disease. Now there's more.
By Jason Claffey
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6:02 pm
More patients have been infected with hepatitis C ? a sometimes fatal liver disease ? after an outbreak at Exeter Hospital last month, officials announced this afternoon.
Four people ? including a hospital employee ? were found to have contracted the disease when officials first announced the outbreak.
Additional testing identified six more patients contracted the disease ? bringing the total number of infected people to 10. There's a possibility there could be more...
Hepatitis C Investigation Continues
By Tina Forbes
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The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services continues to work with Exeter Hospital to determine the source and scope of the hepatitis C outbreak.
All 10 affected individuals?9 patients and 1 employee? have had a connection with the hospital?s cardiac catheterization lab. They have been diagnosed with the same strain of the virus.
Exeter Hospital has expanded testing to include patients associated with the lab between April 2011 and August 2011?that?s several months beyond the original timeline.
The state?s Public Health Director, Jos? Montero, says the scope of testing could still increase...
4 more test positive in hepatitis investigation
A total of fourteen cases of hepatitis C involving patients at Exeter Hospital have been identified.Rich Beauchesne/rbeauchesne@seacoastonline.com
By STAFF REPORTS news@seacoastonline.com
June 09, 2012 1:50 PM
EXETER ? New Hampshire health officials say four more cases of hepatitis C involving patients at Exeter Hospital have been identified in addition to the 10 who were previously determined to have the infection.
The Department of Health and Human Services made the announcement Saturday morning that four more patients match the strain of hepatitis C recently diagnosed in the 10 people who had been treated at the hospital's Cardiac Catheterization Lab, bringing the total number of related cases to 14. Of the 14, one is an Exeter Hospital employee. All 14 individuals have been notified...
Concord, NH ? The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) is today announcing additional results related to testing of patients who had been treated at Exeter Hospital?s Cardiac Catheterization Lab (CCL) beginning April 1, 2011. The NH Public Health Labs (PHL) have identified an additional 4 patients who match the strain of hepatitis C recently diagnosed in 10 people already associated with the CCL, bringing the total number of related cases to 14. Of these 14 patients, 1 is also an Exeter Hospital employee. All 14 individuals have been notified.
?As expected the investigation is revealing more cases related to this outbreak,? said Dr. Jos? Montero, Director of Public Health at DHHS. ?We realize this may be very concerning to people, but we are working as quickly and as thoroughly as we can in close collaboration with Exeter Hospital to determine how these individuals were infected. At this time we do not need to expand the testing, but as we have said since the beginning, if we need to we will let people know as soon as possible.?
Hepatitis C is a viral infection transmitted by blood. It causes inflammation of the liver that can lead to chronic health issues. It is passed from person to person through contact with an infected person?s blood.
Any patients who fit the above criteria can contact Exeter Hospital?s Information and Referral Center to make an appointment for testing at (603) 580-6124. For questions and information about hepatitis C visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website at www.cdc.gov/hepatitis, the DHHS website at www.dhhs.nh.gov, or call the DPHS Bureau of Infectious Disease Control at (603) 271-4496.
"Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear." -Nelson Mandela
Re: Exeter, NH Hospital - 14 diagnosed with hepatitis C
The video says they're investigating the possibility of an employee self-injecting with part of the contents of narcotics syringes, then injecting patients with the rest. (This would mean patients weren't getting the pain relief they were prescribed, in addition to getting a serious disease.)
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.) Never forget Excalibur.
Exeter Hospital details early days of hep C outbreak
By JIM HADDADIN jhaddadin@fosters.com
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
EXETER ? It was on Thursday, May 10, that Exeter Hospital first learned a former patient had tested positive for hepatitis C.
The next day, the hospital discovered a second patient was carrying the virus.
Then on Monday, May 14, word came that a third person was infected, and hospital administrators decided it was time to launch a formal investigation into the circumstances.
That was the sequence of events laid out this week by Mark Whitney, Exeter Hospital's vice president of community relations.
Whitney was asked to describe how an outbreak of hepatitis C linked with the hospital's cardiac catheterization laboratory was first detected.
The number of people linked with the outbreak stood at 14 this week. The only known connection between the people carrying the virus is the hospital's cardiac catheterization laboratory and recovery area...
State: Hospital worker abusing drugs likely cause of hepatitis C outbreak
Employee was put on leave in May
By Aaron Sanborn asanborn@seacoastonline.com
June 13, 2012 3:53 PM
EXETER ? An Exeter Hospital employee abusing drugs is likely the cause of the hepatitis C outbreak that has now grown to 20 individuals, state health officials announced Wednesday.
According to state Public Health Director Dr. Jose Montero, drug diversion has been ruled as the likely cause for the outbreak. This means an employee was likely abusing narcotics at the hospital and then injected patients with a used syringe...
Re: Exeter, NH Hospital - 20 diagnosed with hepatitis C
Feds join hepatitis C outbreak investigation in NH
By Holly Ramer
Associated Press / June 19, 2012
CONCORD, N.H.?Federal authorities have joined the investigation into the hepatitis C outbreak at Exeter Hospital.
U.S. Attorney John Kacavas said Tuesday his office has brought in personnel from the Food and Drug Administration and FBI to determine whether the outbreak at the hospital's cardiac catheterization lab is a criminal or civil matter. Doing so isn't uncommon in such situations, he said.
"This case presents a matter of public health and safety, and we have statutory authority at the federal level that fit these precise circumstances," he said.
A hospital worker and 19 patients at its cardiac catheterization lab have tested positive for the liver-destroying disease since the investigation began last month. State health officials suspect a lab employee's misuse of drugs led to the outbreak. They have not provided any details about the suspected individual, but have said such cases generally involve workers stealing medication meant for patients, injecting it into themselves and then reusing the syringes on patients.
"Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear." -Nelson Mandela
Another Patient Tests Positive for Hep C
By Tina Forbes
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services says another Exeter Hospital patient has tested positive for the original strain of hepatitis C. This brings the total count to 21?20 patients and 1 hospital employee.
The current testing pool includes anyone associated with the hospital?s cardiac catheterization lab or recovery room between October 1, 2010 and May 25, 2012...
New Hampshire?s Department of Public Health confirmed Monday an additional 6 cases of hepatitis C connected to the outbreak at Exeter Hospital. There are now 27 total cases, one of which is the Hospital employee believed to be the source of the outbreak...
July 12. 2012 11:45AM
4 additional cases linked to Exeter hepatitis outbreak
JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
EXETER - The state announced four additional cases of hepatitis C linked to an outbreak at Exeter Hospital, bringing the total number infected to 31, public health officials said Thursday.
The latest cases were discovered during additional testing as the state and other agencies investigate an outbreak of an identical strain of the virus that began in May.
'Serial infector' charged in hepatitis C outbreak
By Joey Cresta jcresta@seacoastonline.com
July 19, 2012 2:04 PM
CONCORD ? A Michigan man authorities described as a ?serial infector? and a traveling medical technician who worked hospitals in at least seven states is allegedly responsible for the hepatitis C outbreak at Exeter Hospital...
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