[SpeCies]

Talk about scary




CRANBROOK, British Columbia - About 3,000 people got the wrong results when they were tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia over an 18-month period, health officials say.


Because of a faulty diagnostic machine in this southeastern British Columbia town, test results for the two sexually transmitted diseases were reversed, Alison Paine, a spokeswoman for the Interior Health Authority, said Wednesday.


Officials were notified of the defective BD ProbeTec in July by the manufacturer, Becton, Dickenson and Co. of Paramus, N.J., and immediately stopped using it, Paine said.


"The machine was flipping the tests results," Paine said. "In other words, if you were a positive, you would have received a negative reading. If you were a negative, you would have received a positive reading."


About 3,000 people are believed to have been tested between Nov. 1, 2000, and May 24, 2002, and about 83 were told they were clean when they actually had one of the diseases. Most of the 83 have been contacted but not all, Paine said.


The rest of the 3,000 were told they were infected and were given treatment although they did not have the diseases, Paine said.


Cranbrook is about 120 miles northeast of Spokane, Wash.


Untreated, both diseases can lead to sterilization in women and increase the risk of contracting HIV (news - web sites) or AIDS (news - web sites) in men and women, according to the Web site of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.


Authorities said they didn't know how many people may have had sex with 83 test subjects who didn't know they had at least one of the diseases.


"We're very concerned about consequences," said Dr. Paul Hasselback, the province's senior medical health officer for the region. "That's why it's important that the information get out there."


A spokeswoman for the manufacturer could not be reached for comment Wednesday by The Canadian Press, but a notice on the company's Web site Aug. 22 stated that the defect was found in two machines out of 1,000 tested worldwide.


The notice blamed incorrect installation of "optical bundles" and said the company was working with Health Canada to ensure a prompt recall.


"Neither the costs anticipated with this recall, nor the impact on BD's ProbeTec ET instrument business, are expected to be significant," the notice added.


According to the CDC, chlamydia may be one of the most dangerous sexually transmitted diseases among women.


It is easily cured with antibiotics but often goes undiagnosed because 75 percent of women and half the men that get it have no symptoms.


If left untreated, as many as 40 percent of infected women develop pelvic inflammatory disease, which can cause severe abdominal pain and fever.


Gonorrhea can also go undetected in women and also can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease.





One in five women with pelvic inflammatory disease becomes infertile.

Untreated gonorrhea in men can cause painful or swollen testicles that can lead to infertility. Gonorrhea can also affect the prostate and can lead to scarring inside the urethra, making urination difficult.
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"We're very concerned about consequences,"

I'll say...
How many murders were commited in that town???

Oh and 83% of the town was infected....


wow ...... We need the goat retested guys
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[JtH]

what doesnt make sense is that out of 3000 people only 83 came up clean. shouldnt that alone made them test the machine?? i mean thats a huge amount. thats soooooo dumb.
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[SpeCies]

Regardless if it was canada or california this is the crap that toys with peoples minds, imagine if it was Aids ? How would you react knowing that within the next decade you are going to die. Mechanisms, Computing, Automation of any kind, mistakes like this are going to happen.

How many accidents are actually made public anyway ?

Imagine if this mishap was with the H.I.V Screening test that now aday's is required at doctor visits, you take the test and two weeks later due to an error find-out that your test is positive Talk about an event much like the one back in the day with Orson Wells and his announcement of an alien invasion by extratesticals, not only did this hoax scare people it also enhanced an already depressed society due to the crash of the U.S Stock market that lead some people to commit Suicide, Crimes, Sex Acts, Revenge, because they all thought that the end was near and that those who were involved had nothing to loose or so they thought

I wonder how many lawsuits were filed against ABC over this by family's of Mr.Wells prank ?

They need to really get their crap together! I suspect that there will be boku lawsuits filed in the next few days over this. Machines are only as smart as it's makers and when it comes to health I sill feel that these procedures should be handled by qualified individuals not machines!
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Imagine if you were positive and went home and had sex with your gf, wife or maybe your best friend? Results like this are really crappy... They should find a fail-safe way or something. When you play with something as serious as an STD then you gotta take your time and make sure everything is done right otherwise you literally ruin people's lives.

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[Clay Pigeon]

Please properly cite your sources. We dont want the ville to get in trouble.

[SpeCies]

Well Duh !!! Do you think that I would make this stuff up ?




Source #1

Thousands Given Wrong STD Results



Source #2




War of the Worlds Broadcast