16 November 2013 (01:14 UTC-07 Tango)/12 Muharram 1434/25 Aban 1391/14 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

In Minot, North Dakota, state Health Department warnings after at least 35 people tested positive for a new strain of hepatitis C.  500 people from a Minot nursing home have been tested.  State epidemiologists might expand their testing as they try to find the source of the new strain.

So far investigators have been focusing on medical sources, because hepatitis C can only be spread by blood contact, such as from an infected hypodermic needle.  The nursing home in question, ManorCare Health Services, acts as a halfway house for people recovering from hospital stays.  It is part of the Manor Care Inc./HCR Manor Care operation, a nationwide health care op which was taken over in 2007 by the evil vulture capitalist Carlyle Group.

The Associated Press says state health investigators will not give anymore details about the H-C outbreak, other than it is a version they’ve never seen before.

Treatment for H-C is risky, and depends on any existing medical problems you might have, or how bad the H-C has affected your liver.  There is no vaccine for H-C.

Then there’s the hep-A outbreak in Fargo, Grand Forks and Jamestown.  That outbreak is being blamed on a Catholic Bishop.

Hep-A can be spread simply through contact.  Peace Garden State health investigators say most of those infected got sick after attending communion in their churches (some reports say “hundreds” of Christians are now infected).  The Bishop is said to have gotten infected while attending a Catholic conference in Vatican.

There are vaccines to help prevent getting sick with H-A, but there is no treatment once you’re sick.