Heart Clinic’s Hepatitis Exposure Widens

More cases involving patients possibly exposed to hepatitis at a heart clinic. An attorney says his firm has 60 clients whom he believes contracted hepatitis from the Raleigh Heart Clinic in Beckley. More than 2,300 clinic patients received letters from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources in March, saying they may have been exposed to hepatitis B and C as well as HIV. At the time, health officials said they were investigating 12 cases of hepatitis linked to injectable medications given during cardiac stress tests at the clinic. In May, Raleigh County commissioners approved more than $8,600 to the health department to help cover the costs of testing.