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Plaintiff Henry Chanin contracted the disease following a colonoscopy at one of several clinics in the area tied to the outbreak.
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Such as: delivering summary judgment declaring Chanin got the disease from a Propofol injection even though that was a core contested fact in the case.
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In the Chanin case, Teva argues, Propofol contained several specific warnings, both on the package containing vials of the anesthetic and on the vials themselves, against using the drug on multiple patients.
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Despite this, the plaintiffs argued, a nurse anesthetist at Desert Shadow injected a Hep C-infected patient with Propofol, then returned the syringe to the bottle, infecting the contents, before using another syringe to inject Chanin.
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Henry Chanin, the headmaster of a private school in Nevada, went in for a routine colonoscopy in 2006 and emerged with a dose of Hep C, a usually incurable disease that can progress to cirrhosis, liver cancer and death.
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