FOX News reports quite a flap over the following scandal involving a VA dental clinic in St. Louis, MO:
House lawmakers have started calling for an investigation into reports that more than 1,800 veterans from Missouri, Illinois and other states may have been exposed to HIV or other diseases while getting dental treatment at a VA medical center in St. Louis.
Rep. Russ Carnahan, who represents St. Louis, on Wednesday asked the White House, the Veterans Administration and the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to look into the possibility that potentially deadly viruses were transmitted through equipment used at the John Cochran Division of the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center from February 2009 to March 2010.
According to a statement from the VA, dental equipment at the hospital in St. Louis was sterilized -- but it was "not sterilized to the exact specifications of the manufacturers guidelines."
"This is absolutely unacceptable," said Carnahan, a Democrat. "No veteran who has served and risked their life for this great nation should have to worry about their personal safety when receiving much needed health care services from a Veterans Administration hospital...."
UPDATE: Reported in The Hill: Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.) said on CNN Monday, “It's outrageous, one, that this happens, but even worse is this secretive, almost cover-up mode that they go into when something like this happens.” Gen. Eric Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, did not hear about this lapse until last week.
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