07/01/09

LAS VEGAS (AP) _ A doctor involved in one of the largest
hepatitis C scares in the country will be getting his medical
license back.

The state Board of Medical Examiners ruled Wednesday that
privileges to practice medicine should be restored to Eladio
Carrera.

Carrera and his partner, Dipak Desai, had been barred from
practicing. The men ran two southern Nevada clinics implicated in
spread of the blood-borne disease in 2007.

Desai has not had his license reinstated.

Health officials found staff members at the two clinics reused
vials of anesthetic and failed to clean equipment properly. As a
result, than 50,000 people were notified that they may have been
exposed to the disease. Nine hepatitis C cases were definitively
linked to the clinics, another 105 cases were possibly related.

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Information from: Las Vegas Sun, http://www.lasvegassun.com

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