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Former Mayo Clinic technician admits to infecting patients with hepatitis C. A former radiology technician offers pleaded guilty to contaminating syringes of anesthetics at a Jacksonville healthcare facility with hepatitis C, infecting two patients as well as killing one.

This U.S. Solicitor's office said Comes to an end that 48-year-old Steven Beumel tampered with the syringes from 2008 through 2008 although working at the Mayo Clinic branch in Jacksonville. He shot the painkillers along with refilled the toxified syringes with saline.

Epidemiologists through the hospital and community health agencies worked for more than three years to unravel the Hepatitis C outbreak and it has been eventually linked to Beumel. This individual was fired in addition to clinic authorities claimed him to law enforcement officials.

The clinic examined thousands of patients have been potentially at risk.