FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Hampshire shows David Kwiatkowski, a former lab technician at Exeter, N.H. Hospital Kwiatkowski was arrested in July at a hospital in Massachusetts where he was receiving medical treatment and charged in New Hampshire with tampering with needles and infecting at least 31 people who were treated at Exeter Hospital's cardiac catheterization lab with hepatitis C. Thousands more people treated at hospitals where he worked are being tested. Records and interviews conducted by The Associated Press show that authorities could have halted Kwiatkowski's career four years ago, after he was fired from a Pittsburgh hospital. But he went on to work at 10 more hospitals, none of which knew about his history. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney's Office, File)
David Kwiatkowski (kwiht-KOW'-skee), whom prosecutors describe as a "serial infector," was indicted last week on 14 charges — seven counts of tampering with a consumer product and seven counts of illegally obtaining drugs.
He's scheduled to be arraigned at 2 p.m. Monday.
Until May, Kwiatkowski worked as a cardiac technologist at Exeter Hospital, where 32 patients were diagnosed with the same strain of hepatitis C he carries. Before that, he worked in 18 hospitals in seven states. Patients in Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania have since been tested for hepatitis C.
Kwiatkowski has said he's innocent.
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