Hospital-Related Infection — United States
Bad news is arriving in the mail this week for nearly 5000 people treated in a Utah emergency room. The patients, most of who live in Utah but some out of state, could have been exposed to a rare strain of hepatitis C, genotype 2b.
Hepatitis C is a chronic condition and can lay dormant for up to 25 years and then may cause serious liver problems such as liver failure and eventually death. The possible window for exposure was from June 2013 to November 2014 at Ogden’s McKay-Dee
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