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A Chicago man who claims he acquired Hepatitis B from a surgical procedure using stolen body tissue, has filed a lawsuit. The defendants include Biomedical Tissue Services and Medtronic. 
 
The suit alleges negligence, failure to screen harvested tissue for disease, and failure to maintain proper documentation.

Chicago Suit Says Man Got Hepatitis From Stolen Body Tissue

WBBM780 - 6/17/2006 8:40 AM

CHICAGO (STNG) -- A man claiming he was the recipient of stolen body tissue, resulting in Hepatitis B, filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court Friday.
 
Adeeb Yousif claims in the five-count suit that Biomedical Tissue Services (BTS) sold him stolen tissue for his surgery that led to Hepatitis B contraction, and he now has “a potentially incurable infectious disease.”
 
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