Vegas clinic may have sickened thousands
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080306/ap_on_re_us/hepatitis_exposure"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080305/capt.87d88abc8bbd498a9f233add0d158f6a.hepatitis_exposure_nvrc103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=huG4MjxNqzowpLroAzm4Yg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Michael Washington, 67, talks about living with hepatitis C during an interview with the Associated Press at Edward Bernstein & Associates law offices Tuesday, March 4, 2008, in Las Vegas. Washington believes he contracted hepatitis C while having a preventative colon examine at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada last July. Washington's wife Josephine, 70, is shown nearby. (AP Photo/ Ronda Churchill)" border="0" /></a>AP - Nearly 40,000 people learned this week that a trip to the doctor may have made them sick. In a type of scandal more often associated with Third World countries, a Las Vegas clinic was found to be reusing syringes and vials of medication for nearly four years. The shoddy practices may have led to an outbreak of the potentially fatal hepatitis C virus and exposed patients to HIV, too.</p><br clear="all"/>

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