Exeter Hospital’s “outbreak” strain of HCV has risen to 30 patients and one employee (HCW) from the previously reported 26 patients and one employee. But wait, there’s more!  There are 12 other patients of the Cardiac Cath. Lab that have different HCV strains!  They aren’t mentioned in many articles;  I imagine that they aren’t too happy to be left out of the “outbreak” group which will probably get more tangible things than apologies from the CEO:  free treatment and money.

Is the hospital treating their HCV strains as their own darn fault?  (Take your lousy pain and suffering elsewhere–we don’t know you–you deviants.)

Forty-two patients (and one HCW) or thirty patients (and one HCW):  How many patients should the hospital own up to?   Unless they can provide evidence that their surface sterilization practices in the lab were so perfect, that none of the patients could have contracted any HCV strains from them, I say all 42 patients should be treated equally by the hospital.