It was January, and two acute cases of hepatitis C had been reported to authorities — the number Clark County averages in a year. The patients, they soon discovered, had one thing in common: Both had undergone procedures at the same medical clinic.
When investigators arrived at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, they witnessed staffers reusing medicine vials and syringes during anesthesia, a practice that can transmit blood-borne diseases.
The safety lapses — purportedly in place to cut costs — dated to at least 2004.
As a result, 40,000 people have been told to seek testing for hepatitis and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in what federal officials are calling the largest notification of its kind in history.
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