Hepatitis outbreak at Heart Clinic

The Hepatitis outbreak that officials said started with 12 patients at the Raleigh Heart Clinic in Beckley has widened. Twenty-three hundred patients of the clinic received letters from the Dept. of Health and Human Resources in March, saying they may have been exposed to Hepatitis B, C, and HIV. At the time, health officials said they believed the outbreak was confined to two clusters of 12 patients. But after more positive tests following the letters, Health and Human Resources officials announced they were widening the notification pool to anyone who received a stress test at the clinic.