Doctor Linked to Hepatitis Scare Reinstated
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Posted: 3:15 PM Jul 1, 2009
Doctor Linked to Hepatitis Scare Reinstated
A doctor involved in one of the largest hepatitis C scares in the country will be getting his medical license back.
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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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