VA Says Its Equipment Was Contaminated; Vets Testing Positive For Viral Infections, Including Hepatitis
Boy, talk about another reason to get your Hepatitis A vaccine! The Veterans Administration (VA) has acknowledged that 16 patients exposed to contaminated equipment at its medical facilities have tested positive for viral infections, including hepatitis.
According to CBS News:
VA spokeswoman Katie Roberts said Friday that 10 colonoscopy patients from the VA medical center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., tested positive for hepatitis. She said six patients from a VA clinic in Augusta, Ga., tested positive for unspecified viral infections.
The number of reported infections could rise. Roberts says the department doesn't yet have results from most of more than 10,000 veterans warned to get blood tests because they could have been exposed to contamination. Patients at a medical center in Miami also were urged to get tested.
All three sites failed to properly sterilize equipment between treatments.
The VA Medical Center in Murfreesboro is named for World War I hero Alvin C. York, who was a native of Pall Mall, Tenn. For more about this distributing report, check here.
The medical community makes up these diseases as they go along. I'm not being suckered anymore. FYI - if the ingredients in vaccines aren't enough to scare you, how about the contaminants like the cancer causing SV-40 virus that was found in the polio vaccine? Why don't you practice real law and go after these criminals for poisoning society. It is because of them that we now have "altered DNA, cancer and fertility issues"....among other things.