- The Sun - UK
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- 6-7-7
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- LONDON -- Infected hospital
staff have given five patients potentially deadly Hepatitis C, health officials
revealed last night.
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- The victims were uncovered after an alert to 2,000 women
who underwent Caesarean births or hysterectomies. One of the
two staff found to be infected with the liver virus was a doctor. The pair
worked in obstetrics and gynaecology departments at 28 hospitals across
the UK.
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- Yesterday health chiefs urged 3,000 MORE women to undergo
screening - as a precaution. They stressed the likelihood of
them having caught the disease was slight compared with the first batch
- because the operations they underwent were less major.
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- Public health consultant Dr Maida Smellie said: "I
understand this news may cause anxiety to some people. But I want to emphasise
that the risk is very small."
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- http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007260332,00.html
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message
board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
- Also my new website:
- http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/
- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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