Dustin M. Wax

writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker

public health

Ricin? Hepatitis C? What's the World (and My Life) Coming To?

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So my partner, she works at the state health lab. Her team does the outbreak investigation and labwork, and all the bioterrorism stuff. So you can imagine how soundly I sleep at night!

This week saw the release of information on a case they've been following for a while, which has turned into the largest notification in US history: 50,000 people are being notified that they might have been exposed to hepatitis C, hepatitis B, or HIV when they went into a popular clinic for colonoscopies. You can imagine all the bloodwork!

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