HEPATITIS CASE Use of dirty needles
Another case of serum hepatitis contracted after the use of an infected hypodermic syringe during drug experiments was reported in the Christchurch health district last week, making four such cases attributed to the same cause in the last three weeks.
Last week’s case was a young man living in the city, said the Medical Officer of Health (Dr L. F. Jepson). Serum hepatitis was made more difficult to deal with because of its long incubation period—about 70 days, said Dr Jepson. This meant that although current warnings about the seriousness of the disease and the risk involved in using dirty hypodermic equipment might be having an effect, two months might pass before a person showed signs of having the disease. Other notifiable diseases reported last week were two of food poisoning and two of infective hepatitis.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32959, 4 July 1972, Page 17
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