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The two-year investigation determined that unsafe injection practices at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada and its sister clinic, Desert Shadow Endoscopy Center, probably led to the infections of as many as 115 clinic patients, the 266-page report said.

Nine of the cases were linked to the clinics, while the other 106 were possibly linked, the report said.

The unsafe injection practices prompted health officials to notify some 63,000 clinic patients that they might have been exposed to hepatitis, HIV and other blood-borne diseases -- the largest patient notification of its kind in the country's history.

Through interviews and observations, investigators identified a combination of unsafe injection practices at the clinics, including reusing syringes on a single patient and reusing vials of anesthetic between patients.

Although investigators cannot say with certainty that the unsafe injection practices led to the infections, they ruled out every other possible source, including transmission from unclean scopes and reusing bite blocks, according to the report."

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