[chuecalovers]

pretty ridiculous, they certainly appeared to have taken their time. Why?


VA Hospital May Have Exposed 1,800 Vets to HIV

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — More than 1,800 veterans may have been exposed to several potentially deadly viruses including HIV after they received dental work at a St. Louis-area VA hospital.

On Tuesday, The John Cochran Division of the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center began sending out letters to 1,812 veterans who were treated at the facility from February 2009 to March 2010.

According to a statement from the VA, the dental equipment was sterilized – but it was “not sterilized to the exact specifications of the manufacturers guidelines.”

Although the VA concluded that the risk of “infection was extremely low,” the agency decided it was still necessary to disclose the error to patients who were treated at the medical center during that 13-month period. They are now offering free blood tests to screen for HIV as well as hepatitis B and C.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,595625,00.html

[forotis]

How is the administration in cover up mode?

[Abanijo]

pretty ridiculous, they certainly appeared to have taken their time. Why?


VA Hospital May Have Exposed 1,800 Vets to HIV

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — More than 1,800 veterans may have been exposed to several potentially deadly viruses including HIV after they received dental work at a St. Louis-area VA hospital.

On Tuesday, The John Cochran Division of the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center began sending out letters to 1,812 veterans who were treated at the facility from February 2009 to March 2010.

According to a statement from the VA, the dental equipment was sterilized – but it was “not sterilized to the exact specifications of the manufacturers guidelines.”

Although the VA concluded that the risk of “infection was extremely low,” the agency decided it was still necessary to disclose the error to patients who were treated at the medical center during that 13-month period. They are now offering free blood tests to screen for HIV as well as hepatitis B and C.

VA Hospital May Have Exposed 1,800 Vets to HIV - Infectious Disease - FOXNews.com

Hmmm...well it's probably not the best idea to jump out and yell that people might have HIV before you have all the facts. You say HIV and people lose it, even if there is an extremely low risk that they have it. And this probably happens more than people realize.

Anyhoodle....

How is the Messiah covering this up? He doesn't run the VA in St. Louis does he?!

[MpNelQTU]

How is sending a letter to everyone involved, explaining the situation, and offering free testing a "coverup"?

[tgs]

pretty ridiculous, they certainly appeared to have taken their time. Why?


VA Hospital May Have Exposed 1,800 Vets to HIV

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — More than 1,800 veterans may have been exposed to several potentially deadly viruses including HIV after they received dental work at a St. Louis-area VA hospital.

On Tuesday, The John Cochran Division of the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center began sending out letters to 1,812 veterans who were treated at the facility from February 2009 to March 2010.

According to a statement from the VA, the dental equipment was sterilized – but it was “not sterilized to the exact specifications of the manufacturers guidelines.”

Although the VA concluded that the risk of “infection was extremely low,” the agency decided it was still necessary to disclose the error to patients who were treated at the medical center during that 13-month period. They are now offering free blood tests to screen for HIV as well as hepatitis B and C.

VA Hospital May Have Exposed 1,800 Vets to HIV - Infectious Disease - FOXNews.com

They're covering it up by quite publicly sending out official letters to those involved?

DAMN YOU, OBAMA!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!

[doogiehoussi]

hey, argue with the dem. chair of the vet committee....heres another link, the damn dirty apes....




Veterans Affairs head blasts administration over hospital incident
By Russell Berman - 07/05/10 02:10 PM ET

The Democratic chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee lambasted the Obama administration over its handling of an incident at a St. Louis VA center in which more than 1,800 veterans were told they may have been exposed to HIV.

“It’s outrageous, one, that this happens, but even worse is this secretive, almost cover-up mode that they go into when something like this happens,” Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.) said on CNN Monday.

The Department of Veterans Affairs last month sent a letter to 1,812 patients informing them that they could have been exposed to HIV and other deadly viruses because of dental equipment that was insufficiently sterilized over a period of 13 months. The agency said the risk of infection was “extremely low,” but urged patients to return for blood tests.

Filner criticized the administration for taking more than three months to send out the letters after it discovered the faulty safety precautions in March. “We should be much more caring not only about the procedures but the way we deal with them after they’re known,” the congressman said. He said it was “disgraceful” that Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki did not know about the lapse until last week.

Veterans Affairs head blasts administration over hospital incident - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room