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At least 50,000 patients at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada and the Desert Shadow Endoscopy Center may have been exposed to hepatitis C, hepatitis B or HIV as a result of the unsanitary medical practices that went on at these two clinics.
Nevada health officials have confirmed that several patients who were treated at one of the Las Vegas clinics have tested positive for hepatitis C. At least 850 additional patients also claim to have tested positive for the disease, according to lawyers representing them in their hepatitis exposure lawsuits.
Although no cases of HIV have been officially confirmed by Nevada health officials, these attorneys say that blood tests have revealed that at least seven of their clients are HIV-positive following their treatment at one of the two Las Vegas clinics. An additional patient has also come forward to reveal that she was HIV-positive at the time she was treated at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada in 2004.
Several patients who were treated at one of the Las Vegas clinics have tested positive for hepatitis C.
Because staff at the two clinics reused medicine vials, syringes, biopsy forceps and other items on multiple patients, serious infections may have been spread between patients through contaminated medical equipment.
Attorneys representing the seven patients who have tested positive for HIV have already filed a class action lawsuit against the clinics and their doctors. These lawsuits allege that unsafe medical practices at these facilities caused their clients to be infected with HIV.
Authorities have advised anyone who was treated at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada or the Desert Shadow Endoscopy Center to visit their doctor in order to undergo blood tests for hepatitis C, hepatitis B and HIV.
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