FOURTEEN more women have tested positive for hepatitis C as part of an investigation into a Melbourne anaesthetist suspected of deliberately infecting his patients.After testing 1800 women, Victoria's Department of Human Services on Monday announced that 58 had tested positive to hepatitis C, 35 of whom were known to be genetically linked to the anaesthetist's strain of the disease.In May, after testing 746 women, the department found 44 with the disease.It has contacted a further 400 women who will be tested. Almost 30 New Zealand women are also to be tested.The New Zealand Ministry of Health tried to track down 55 women who had attended the Croydon Day Surgery in Melbourne's east, where anaesthetist James Latham Peters worked.The DHS investigation...
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