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| Suit alleges inadequate care of outbreak |
| By Los Angeles Times |
| Published: 07/09/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - California prison officials are failing to adequately treat an outbreak of hepatitis C that has infected thousands of inmates, a federal class-action lawsuit alleged Tuesday. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles on behalf of inmates including Kevin Jackson, who is at the California State Prison at Solano and alleges that he has not received proper treatment since being diagnosed with the disease in August 2007. Up to 40% of the 171,000 inmates in state prisons may be infected with hepatitis C, said Shawn Khorrami, an attorney for Jackson. The lawsuit alleges that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is wrongly excluding thousands of inmates from liver biopsies and antiviral treatments and allowing their diseases to progress to more advanced stages of liver damage. Khorrami said the lack of proper diagnostic testing and treatment further spreads the disease among inmates. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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