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77 hepatitis C cases linked to Endoscopy Center; 400 positive tests reported

Southern Nevada Health District disease investigators have identified 77 people who may have contracted hepatitis C at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada at 700 Shadow Lane, health officials announced Thursday morning.

To date, the health district has interviewed 400 people who have tested positive for hepatitis C and underwent procedures at the clinic between March 2004 and January 11.

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  • There have been a total of eight acute hepatitis C cases associated with the outbreak, seven of which can be linked directly to the Shadow Lane clinic.

    More about the Hepatitis C Investigation.



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    frank wrote on June 05, 2008 01:01 AM: Joseph Smith and all of his sheep had to stop screwing little girls, ah I mean marrying them, and ah of course J man was the prophet and all, ya know...you can especially tell he was the prophet by his translation of the golden tablets into a really bad attempt at Old King James style English...you know God decoded them in Old King James style English to J man, I mean a really bad attempt at King James English, because that's how they talked in Utah at the time...hey wait a second...they didn't talk that way back then, they talked American English...maybe ole Joseph Smith was pulling a fast one on us by trying to sound all biblical and all, cause God wouldn't have talked to him in a bad version of King James English, God would have used the vernacular of the day...that dirty old man just wanted to get some extra on the side and used idiot illiterate followers who had only heard the bible in King James versions, so ole J Smith had to try and copy it...don’t' believe me? Read the book o Mormon; see fer yerself...oh yee of little faith, ye. Yep, read REAL King James English in the Bible or elswhere, then, compare the grammer and writing to the book o morman and you will see how idiotic the whole idea really is…I mean come on.


    Fedup wrote on May 12, 2008 01:10 PM: Here we go again We the victims being raped by our assailants! Don.t forget to answer the Questioner Scru U Desai and all your well paid lawyers!


    seth wrote on May 08, 2008 07:32 PM: It is on good authority that D. Desai has a net worth of approx. $100 million, most of which is in offshore trusts in Dubai and other localities.
    PI attorneys - you can look, but you cannot touch.


    julio wrote on May 08, 2008 05:18 PM: not surprised those docs are getting around their negilent care . they contuine to look people in the face , knowing they could of infected a family member of a patient or even you and do endoscopys... they don't have a conscience. they talk to us in the hospital and open a new clinic's and they infected our friends, family members and just contuine working. like it was no big deal. hwo can those 2 docs look your family members in the eye and contuine to do egd and endoscopy on them. dr v sharma and dr carroll need to be held accountable as desi and herreo, i am disgusted they are in the hospitals doing work, and facing people and families they could of infected. no shame .. just $$$$$$$$ is all they care about...


    james wrote on May 08, 2008 05:05 PM: yes , i've heard stories about dr v. sharma and dr carroll being part of that group. they had not better walk into my family members hospital room and ask to do a egd,,, they need to stop working , they are part of this scare and need to be held accountable as the others. dr sharma was on the endoscopy board for that clinic...
    my wife is in the hospital now and believe me , theye won't be doing any tests on her


    deloris wrote on May 08, 2008 05:00 PM: ooh i know dr v. sharma did a egd n my husband last week at a local hospital .. i couldn't believe he walked in the room after it was over and told me he did it.. by then it was to late for me to refuse his care... i was spitting mad that he did a egd without my knowledge .. i don'twant dr carroll or dr v. sharma o ever touch my family member's again.. i will now ask who will be doing the endoscpy or egd before it is done.... they are still raking in the money , by skirting around their clinic closing... those 2 docs are just as guilty as desi.....


    shayla wrote on May 08, 2008 04:52 PM: oh yes and alot of the docs are still working in the hospitals ..dr v sharma and dr carroll are in the hospitals still doing endoscopys .. i know because they did one on my mother in law.... if i knew it was sharma or carroll doing it .. i would of thrown them out of the room.... so watch out who's doing your endoscopy or family members endoscopy ... scary.. i was mad when i found out they were working together on her.. what nerve they have.... i wouldn't be able to show my face in public if i was sharma or carroll....


    confused wrote on May 08, 2008 04:29 PM: Cynicalobserver; the cases have been assumed to be connected to the center.Genetic testing is yet to be done.Labus does not even have accesss to the infected pt's records thanks to Metro, so he can decide if they are directly linked to the center or not.


    CynicalObserver wrote on May 08, 2008 03:56 PM: 77 Hepatitis C virus cases genetically linked to the Endoscopy Center of Southern California!

    I wish I could find all of the blog posts from the LVRJ and the Sun, saying that this is just a minor crisis, and there are only a few cases.

    Those posts were obviously written by doctors who are apologists for the 14 Desai physician group, or written by doctors who are just plain idiots, or written by malpractice defense lawyers.

    I would like to take all of those obnoxious blog posts by the incompetent doctor/malpractice defense lawyer mafia and shove their words down their throats.

    Clark County Public Health Agency and Oscar G rule, doctors drool!


    VC wrote on May 08, 2008 03:05 PM: And to think the medical board was trying to cover up complaints they had received about Dr Death. Shame on them. I do not blame them for the outbreak, but i certainly blame them for their digraceful reaction to it.


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