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Notifications raise more questions in HIV, hepatitis infection scare at Oregon hospitals - OregonLive

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Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center.

The entrance to Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center. Hospital officials are contacting patients who may have acquired infections while receiving care that required intravenous anesthesia.Mark Graves/The Oregonian

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  • Kristine de Leon | The Oregonian/OregonLive

Weeks after undergoing a medical procedure that required intravenous anesthesia at Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center in Gresham, Anthony Laszlo was perplexed to find a letter in the mail from the hospital suggesting that he might have exposed other patients to an infectious disease.

Laszlo said his primary care doctor followed up with a phone call in early June, about three weeks after the procedure.

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