The man accused of infecting patients with hepatitis C at a New Hampshire hospital was fired from a job in Arizona two years ago after testing positive for cocaine and marijuana, a public relations agency for Arizona Heart Hospital said Thursday.
David Kwiatkowski was arrested this month in connection with spreading the disease to 30 patients at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire.
Kwiatkowski, 33, also worked as a traveling medical technician on a contract basis for hospitals in Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania in the past five years, hospitals and health officials in those states said.
They are trying to get the hundreds or thousands of patients who may have come in contact with him to be tested for the disease.
Kwiatkowski has been treated for the disease, which can pass through contact with contaminated blood, most often via shared needles.
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Was this a "Typhoid Mary" type of case or a deliberate infestation?
That stinks...jeez!
....youkno' he was...lol
They're a hospital. Are they possibly admitting they don't know how to treat anybody even with isolation. Just release a person to infect the general public?
It's not easy to get Hep C w/out intimate contact, so it seems this jerk has gone out of his way to pass it on! I guess testing for communicable diseases will commence for any1 in the medical field! Hope this dude rots in prison!!
Now that's bedside manner.
I told him to give them vitamin C. You can't get good help these days.
Hep C can't be spread through personal contact, only blood to blood. Many people got it during surgery before they were able to screen for it. He, probably, knows that and doesn't care. Drug addiction runs rampid in medical care facility personnel. Not an excuse.
Ditto... Lock him up!
I wonder if they can transplant a conscience; this man's was obviously not working properly...
Yes, banasy, I can think of several people in the news lately, who could use that kind of procedure! The Aurora shooter, for ex.! People truly need to stop being so nasty to 1another! Can't we all just Get Along here!?......R.King!
Another white guy causing problems, But will get a slap on the wrist.
Surprise.Surprise.Surprise. He didn't wander through Texas.