LI: Health officials are urging all patients who were exposed prior to March 4 to get tested.
The last time we visited Washington state in these posts, there was a significant outbreak of measles in the county adjacent to the blue wonderland of Portland, Oregon.
Now, public health officials have warned that more than 1,000 students have a potential risk for HIV and hepatitis B and C after they received dental care at 12 schools in and around Seattle due to improperly sterilized dental tools.
The utensils, which were used to treat 1,250 kids at the schools’ dental clinics, weren’t properly sterilized, KING-TV reported.
The King County Department of Health said the risk was low, but recommended students who may have been exposed get tested, according to KING 5.
Neighborhood Care, which operates the clinics for low-income families, said in a statement in part, “We immediately re-trained all school-based dental staff in sterilization processes and policies. We will also reassure that all new and current dental assistants across the Neighborcare Health organization are following sterilization procedures.”
Contracting HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS) leads to a lifetime of antiviral drug treatments. Hepatitis B and C are liver diseases caused by viruses and can readily spread from exposure to contaminated blood or needles.
The notice covers specific schools in the Seattle area. MORE HERE
The west coast is quickly becoming a 3rd world foreign country. We need a longer wall…
“We immediately re-trained all school-based dental staff in sterilization processes and policies.”
No, you should have thrown the responsible parties in jail and hired people whose heads weren’t up their a$$e$.
Unbelievable!!!
Bull$$$hitz
This is a FUD Money Grub.
What, was the sterlizer knob not a full 6 inches away from the water valve?
Low Probability my ass.
No Probabilty but a good chance at FUNDS.
This is how the Deep State funds itself and friends.
Who is running the clinics?
There be thy Cancer
These are just what we know about. The State, King/Pierce/Snohomish County, Seattle, Tacoma and a few others are notorious for hiding things like this from the public.
Soviets are good at hiding the truth.
I haven’t picked a state yet, but I’m working on it.
What a shit hole.
You get what you pay for. Once we have government health care, this will be commonplace.
My son’s middle school was on that list. Good thing he is 32 now.
And why do the service providers have to be trained? Shouldn’t they have already been trained?