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Utah fears thousands infected in hepatitis C outbreak after exposure to hospital nurse
Published January 10, 2016 FoxNews.com
More than 7,000 patients at a Utah hospital were potentially exposed to an ?outbreak? of hepatitis C after coming into contact with an infected former nurse ? but less than half have come in for free testing to find out if they have the disease...
...Mckay-Dee Hospital, in Ogden, and Davis Hospital, in Layton, are offering free testing through the end of January. Those are the hospitals that previously employed 49-year-old nurse Elet Neilson, who contracted a rare strain of the disease, genome 2b. Both that strain and a different variation of hepatitis C have been identified through testing, according to the Standard Examiner. Exposure to the disease is thought to have occurred between June 17, 2013 and Nov. 25, 2014, according to FOX13...
Utah fears thousands infected in hepatitis C outbreak after exposure to hospital nurse
Published January 10, 2016 FoxNews.com
More than 7,000 patients at a Utah hospital were potentially exposed to an ?outbreak? of hepatitis C after coming into contact with an infected former nurse ? but less than half have come in for free testing to find out if they have the disease...
...Mckay-Dee Hospital, in Ogden, and Davis Hospital, in Layton, are offering free testing through the end of January. Those are the hospitals that previously employed 49-year-old nurse Elet Neilson, who contracted a rare strain of the disease, genome 2b. Both that strain and a different variation of hepatitis C have been identified through testing, according to the Standard Examiner. Exposure to the disease is thought to have occurred between June 17, 2013 and Nov. 25, 2014, according to FOX13...
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