An outbreak of a rare infection at a western New York hospital in 2018 was sparked by a nurse’s opioid use disorder, a new case report out Thursday seems to confirm. The nurse is alleged to have taken intravenous opioid painkillers for her own personal use, replacing the fluid she took with water—water that turned out…
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A Nurse’s Alleged Opioid Theft Led to a Blood Infection Outbreak at a New York Hospital
