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Hepatitis C tends to run rampant in prison. A group of New Mexico inmates help keep it at bay.

Dr. Karla Thornton noticed a troubling pattern. Starting in 2004, Thornton, an infectious disease expert at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, was tasked with helping train medical providers working in the state’s prisons to treat hepatitis C, a blood-borne liver disease that can cause serious damage if left untreated. But new infections […]

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