this local woman who’d caught hep C was an unusual case. She happened to be a regular blood donor, and had given blood just a few months earlier, which meant that just a few months ago she did not have hepatitis C. Dr. Dean asked Paige to call the woman and ask her where she had been the past few months. It emerged that in that brief period, the infected woman had treated herself to an astonishing number of possibly infectious procedures. An improbable number of manicures and pedicures. Botox treatments. Dental work. Some kind of stem cell procedure. By the time Paige got off the phone, she
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