50 women linked abortion doctor's Hepatitis C

Nearly 50 women match doctor's Hepatitis C

From: AAP
May 16, 2011 7:11PM

NEARLY 50 women have the same strain of hepatitis C as a doctor who treated them at a Victorian late term abortion clinic.

After testing 4312 of James Latham Peters' patients between 2006 and 2009, 49 women who had procedures at the Croydon Day Surgery have been confirmed as having the same strain of the disease as the anaesthetist.

All of the patients had procedures at the clinic from January 2008 to December 2009.

None of Dr Peters' patients at the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne, St Albans Endoscopy Centre or the Western Day Surgery tested positive to hepatitis C that could be linked to him.

Dr Peters is currently under police investigation and had his registration suspended by the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria in February 2010.

Victoria's Chief Health Officer John Carnie the 49 patients were definitely linked to Dr Peters.

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