People at Risk for Hepatitis as a Result of Poor Infection Prevention Procedures
The CDC finds that the failure to follow proper infection control procedures has put over 60,000 people at risk in the past decade for Hepatitis.
Hepatitis B and Care efficiently transmitted through contact with blood and other body fluids and tissues, which potentially puts healthcare providers and patients at risk of infection during medical procedures. However, such transmission can be prevented if the standard of care is followed by healthcare personnel with respect to infection control. In an article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on January 6, 2009, it stated that the procedure to protect people from this terrible virus are not employed.
....but all too often these are not employed, according to a review article by Nicola Thompson and colleagues in the January 6, 2009 Annals of Internal Medicine.
According to the article, in the past decade 33 outbreaks in U.S. non-hospital healthcare settings have resulted in 450 people acquiring HBV and/or HCV infection. In all these cases, transmission was presumably from patient to patient, caused by "failure of healthcare personnel to adhere to fundamental principles of infection control and aseptic technique.
See the media announcement by the CDC regarding this epidemic and failure of the health industry. If you have contracted Hepatitis and believe that it was caused by a visit to a doctor or dentist or any other healthcare provider, you should contact an attorney.
