300 Riverside Patients May Have Been Injected With Hepatitis C


Posted on Apr 08, 2008

Three people at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, Va., have now tested positive for hepatitis C.  While that's not out of the ordinary, the hospital is now providing precautionary testing for about 300 other patients after a nurse anethetist who worked there last year is accused of infecting Texas patients with hepatitis C.

Retired Army Captain Jon Dale Jones was arrested last month in Miami for assault and possession of a controlled substance by fraud.  While Jones was employed at an El Paso military hospital in 2004, he is suspected of infecting at least 15 military esrvice members or relatives with hepatitis.

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