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Kristen Diane Parker faces criminal charges for allegedly making the swaps while working at Audubon Ambulatory Surgery Center in Colorado Springs and Rose Medical Center in Denver. [1]

Kristen Diane Parker faces federal criminal charges for allegedly making the swaps while working at Audubon Ambulatory Surgery Center in Colorado Springs and Rose Medical Center in Denver. [2]

On Thursday, federal authorities filed criminal charges in U.S. District Court in Denver against Kristen Diane Parker, a former scrub technician at Rose Medical Center in Denver and Audubon Ambulatory Surgery Center in Colorado Springs. [...] Jeff Dorsey and Dr. Donald Leftkowits during a news conference in Denver on Thursday, July 2, 2009 about a Colorado Department of Health investigation into a former Rose surgical room employee who may have infected at least nine patients at the hospital. [3]

DENVER - A former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic, federal authorities said Thursday. [1]

DENVER (AP) - A former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic, federal authorities said Thursday. [4]

DENVER — A former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic, federal authorities said Thursday. [5]

An affidavit by Mary F. LaFrance, an investigator for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, says at least nine surgery patients at Rose have tested positive for hepatitis C, which is incurable. [6]

Federal authorities say a former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic. [2]

, says at least nine surgery patients at Rose have tested positive for hepatitis C, which is incurable. [7]

Parker injected herself with the drug, according to a complaint filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Denver. [4]

If convicted of tampering with a consumer product and other charges, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a maximum $250,000 fine on the most serious charge of tampering. [7]

According to an affidavit by Mary F. LaFrance, an investigator for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, at least nine surgery patients at Rose have tested positive for the incurable disease. [3]

Rose Medical Center officials told a news conference Thursday night they were working with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to determine whether Parker was the source of the virus. [...] She worked there from May 4 until Monday, Dr. J. Michael Hall, Audubon’s medical director, told The Gazette in Colorado Springs. [8]

Sources:
[1] Surgery tech may have exposed thousands in Colorado to hepatitis C
[2] Scrub Tech May Have Exposed Thousands To Hepatitis - cbs4denver.com
[3] Springs surgery tech suspected of exposing thousands to hepatitis C
[4] Scrub tech may have exposed thousands to hepatitis - wtop.com
[5] Scrub tech may have exposed thousands to hepatitis - Forbes.com
[6] Surgery tech may have exposed thousands in Colorado to hepatitis C
[7] Scrub tech may have exposed thousands to hepatitis on Yahoo! Health
[8] Scrub tech may have exposed thousands to hepatitis - Nation Wire - News

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