Kristin Diane Parker
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DENVER (AP) -- A patient infected with hepatitis C has been found at a second Colorado hospital that employed a surgery technician accused of swapping her dirty syringes for ones filled with painkillers meant for patients.
State health officials said Friday a patient at Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs may have contracted the blood-borne disease from 26-year-old Kristen Diane Parker.
Health officials say Parker also may have infected patients at Rose Medical Center in Denver.
She faces multiple charges of tampering and obtaining a controlled substance by deciet or subertufuge.
The state health department has now linked Parker to 14 hepatitis C cases while federal prosecutors have linked her to 19.
Health officials say they use different counting methods.
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