5,700 Patients in Colorado may have been exposed to Hepatitis C by fired lab tech

Colorado patients exposed to hepatitis C

DENVER, July 3 (UPI) -- Thousands of patients in Colorado may have been exposed to hepatitis C from syringes used by an infected former medical technician, officials say.

Rose Medical Center in Denver is offering free testing to more than 4,700 former patients. Another 1,000 people may have been exposed at Audubon Ambulatory Surgery Center in Colorado Springs where the technician worked after being fired from Rose in April, The Denver Post reported Thursday.

The technician was fired after having failed a drug test. Identified by The (Colorado Springs) Gazette newspaper as Kristen Diane Parker, 26, of Colorado Springs, based on Justice Department documents. The documents said she was in federal custody after allegedly swapping her used, dirty syringes, refilled with saline solution, for ones filled the painkiller fentanyl.
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Colorado patients exposed to hepatitis C