40,000 PEOPLE IN LAS VEGAS

[CIRQDUSOLIEL]

Hey Guys,
      Just finishing watching to my disbelief a report from CNN with their doctor, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, reporting that their may have been an outbreak from a clinic in Las Vegas exposing up to possibly more than 40,000 people to the Hep C virus.  WOW!!!!  Basically, they just said that alot of people would be getting letters to who, I guess, were or have been patients to this clinic stating that they would need to be tested for the virus because of improper procedure done by this clinic.  AMAZING!!!!!  I'm sure if you google CNN news online it will show you the video or the report. Just saw it......with my jaw dropped opened............right now six have been tested positive for it.  I guess what happens in Vegas doesn't look like it might stay in Vegas, YIKES!!!!!  Everyone be on top of every procedure done at all times in any clinical setting.  Remain a part of your care........stay safe, blessed, and well.......Until then........

N.O.T.W.

In Him,
Rick

[Upbeat]

The straw is the cause,  The rest are almost impossible.

                                                                                                                        Ron

[pitter]

I never did shoot up drugs, but did do cocaine (shared straws). Had many medical procedures done ! Lots of dental work. Isn't that a terrible thing that this can happen, to unsuspecting people.! I also had cut a guy's hair who had hepc , I cut my finger while I was cutting his hair...Who knows!!! HuH?
good nitey
pitter

[Bigfloyd]

I believe the problem is that they reuse a single syringe to inject multiple times on a single patient (in order to get to the dose required without a large syringe). The problem is that the bottle drawn from has now been exposed for the next patient.

[NashPred]

This is just a blatant disregard for public safety. Exposing people to HepB, HepC, HIV, and who knows what else.  

Even most people not involved in the medical profession know better than this.

This is just insane. I smell major lawsuit.
  

[working dog]

it wasn't coming from re useing the needles ..i believe it was traces of hep left in the stuff they stuck the needles into..so the new needles would pick this up.....billy

[Upbeat]

There is still a risk in getting hep-c at hospitals.  Last year I had some surgery and I had to sign a release just in case I needed a transfusion..  Hep -c was on the list.  I asked about it and said I thought all blood was now screened and you could no longer get hep-c from a blood transfusion. They said ya right. sign here.
                                                                                                                      Ron

                                                                                                

[Bobby1952]

What is wrong with these people. Aren't they trained properly. Is it lazziness. Or is it a don't give a sh** attitude. Personaly I think the people involved should be prosecuted. This is happening too many times lately. Any Dr's office or Dentist's that doesn't clean their equipment properly and spreads a contagious desease should go to jail period.
  
    Why should so many people have to suffer because of someone elses carelessness or lazziness.
    
Bobby

[merryBe]

In this day and age, to do that here should have the DA's office filing not just negligence, but attempted murder charges also. It's not as if they had no clue....

[orphanedhawk]

I remember about fifteen years ago, going to the ER with my daughter. I saw used needles laying around the floor which could easily stick anyone. This was a small country hospital, not another one around for hours.

[sldb]

Syringes are very cheap to purchase,that would not make sense to  reuse syringes.

[sldb]

Its very expensive to purchase the machines/cleaning solutions to clean the endoscopes . Iam just wondering how the scopes are cleaned in these outpatient facilities. I do know hospitals have to follow strict guidelines in ther cleaning methods,with documentation and printouts from the machines. The virus can be passed from scope to person.  Just a thought.  

[working dog]

really got to me as much as i like cnn and sanjay he did a terrible job explanining hep..and hep sx...it was the anesthesiologests... kept sticking dirty needles back in the bottles...lots of possible infections....billy

[debnevada]

there has not been a mistake. six acute cases, five of which had scopes done on the same day and have the same geno and one from another day with a different geno.  the cdc was here.

[Forseegood]

omg...I hope there's been some mistake...