Mayo Clinic, the Florida Department of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working closely in Jacksonville, Fla., to access which patients treated at Mayo should proceed with follow-up testing after risk of exposure to hepatitis C, according to a Mayo Clinic report.
A now former radiology technologist admitted to stealing injectable fentanyl for personal use after he was questioned about similarities between his strain of hepatitis C infection and the strain in three patients who underwent interventional radiology procedures over the last four years.
The number of affected patients is still being determined. Mayo Clinic is notifying these patients and will make hepatitis C testing available to them at no charge, according to the report.
Read the Mayo Clinic report on the infection investigation.
A now former radiology technologist admitted to stealing injectable fentanyl for personal use after he was questioned about similarities between his strain of hepatitis C infection and the strain in three patients who underwent interventional radiology procedures over the last four years.
The number of affected patients is still being determined. Mayo Clinic is notifying these patients and will make hepatitis C testing available to them at no charge, according to the report.
Read the Mayo Clinic report on the infection investigation.
