Investigation seeks answers on Fremont doctor whose clinic infected 99 people with hep C

Short form: in 2002, doctors in Fremont, Nebraska, started putting pieced together and realized that a whole bunch of recent Hep C cases had one thing in common: oncologist Tahir Ali Javed was the common link. So, one of his doctor friends asked him about it.  Dr. javed promised to help look into it.

Two weeks later, he hopped a plane and ran off back to his native Pakistan, never to return.

And now, he’s just been elected a public health minister in Pakistan.

The source of the hep C outbreak doesn’t seem intentional, rather the result of *incredibly* (and I’d imagine criminally) shoddy medical practices… basically sharing needles between patients. Bleah. That he ran away from what he apparently knew to be his responsibility says much about him. That the Pakis put him in charge of medical things says much about *them.* Is it “we don’t care that you’re lazy by American standards, that’s just fine here”? Or is it “you sickend and perhaps killed many Americans? Say, that’s neato!”?