Dozens of Okla. dentist's patients positive for hepatitis

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Dozens of Okla. dentist's patients positive for hepatitis

By CNN Staff
April 18, 2013 -- Updated 1922 GMT (0322 HKT)

(CNN) -- They went to the dentist to get a wisdom tooth pulled or perhaps have their jaw realigned. But they may have also contracted a blood-borne virus.

Health officials in Oklahoma are notifying 57 patients who tested positive for hepatitis C and three patients who tested positive for hepatitis B after visiting oral surgeon W. Scott Harrington's office in Tulsa and a city suburb, according to a joint statement issued Wednesday by the Oklahoma State Department of Health and the Tulsa Health Department.

At least one positive HIV result was also reported, but policy prohibits the Oklahoma State Department of Health from releasing the number if it's less than three.

Health officials stress that it's not yet clear how many of the positive patients were exposed at Harrington's office, if any.

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[Skittles]

1. I cannot imagine the sense of betrayal these folk feel

horrible