‘Depressed’ ER Nurse Who Allegedly Gave Patients Hep C Is Finally Charged

A Washington State emergency room nurse accused of infecting at least a dozen people with Hepatitis C has finally been charged with a crime, some five-and-a-half years after the allegations first surfaced.

Cora Weberg allegedly injected herself with narcotics meant for patients at Puyallup’s Good Samaritan Hospital in 2017 and 2018, then used the same syringe to administer the rest of the drug to those same patients. When those two patients, plus 10 others over the next three months, developed genetically similar strains of Hep C, Weberg quickly came under suspicion.

Weberg, 36, was the one hospital employee who had treated all of the infected patients, and a subsequent CDC report declared Weberg to have been “the only common epidemiological link” between them. Investigators found that Weberg had obtained drugs from the hospital’s automated dispensing system more frequently than other employees, and “admitted to diverting patient injectable narcotic drugs for personal use,” according to the CDC report. It also said Weberg herself tested positive for Hep C, contradicting her lawyer’s claims that she had tested negative.

Read more at The Daily Beast.