Hospital-Related Infection — China
The reuse of syringes at a Taoyuan clinic to treat hepatitis C patients may have spread the disease to an estimated 1200 patients, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
The ministry investigated the incident after 5 hepatitis C cases emerged at Weilian Clinic in Taoyuan City. It later determined that needles used to administer treatment for the 5 infected patients were not disposed of but used repeatedly, possibly infecting 1200. The incident represents the first iatrogenic
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