Lynn Moreau of HandCraft Services Inc., Richmond, VA, vividly recalls the precise sequence of communications that took place in April 2014 when she learned about the deaths of several pediatric patients in 2008-’09, after they were exposed to a fungus transmitted through linens that weren’t properly covered and stored at the hospital.
 
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“I don’t have a great memory, but I do remember the morning that I heard about the mucormycosis outbreak,” said Moreau, a registered nurse and clinical liaison manager for HandCraft. “Within an hour, I got three e-mails. One ...