This is sort of crazy, but it appears that 57 people contracted HCV from contaminated surgical glue in Tokyo after undergoing heart surgery.
The glue is made using fibrinogen, a blood product, and apparently was tainted with the hepatitis C virus. The glue may have been used on up to 79,000 patients! A class action suit is pending.
Check out the article here.
two posts, one evening!
Lauren
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