A hospital in Lévis, Quebec, Canada is asking 1,000 patients who had colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures done—from June 14, 2005, until May 1, 2013—to submit to HIV and hepatitis B and C screening after finding out that equipment used in those procedures had not been adequately sterilized.
That's right. A particular scope was not properly
disinfected for nearly eight years!
Further insight is provided by Lawrence Muscarella.
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