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Almost 70 patients tested for HIV and hepatitis after nurse is caught reusing a syringe...
Daily Mail ^ | 10/06/2015 | The Daily Mail

Posted on 10/06/2015 2:10:48 PM PDT by petercooper

Full Title: Almost 70 patients tested for HIV and hepatitis after nurse is caught reusing a syringe while giving flu shots at New Jersey offices

Nurse administered flu shots to 67 employees at Otsuka Pharmaceutical

Department of Health said she had not changed syringe between patients

Employees were warned they may have been exposed to 'infected blood'

They're now being tested for HIV and hepatitis but results will take months

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: crime; flushots; newjersey; oops; sorry; syringe
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Flu shots are stupid, and now deadly.
1 posted on 10/06/2015 2:10:48 PM PDT by petercooper
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The only time a syringe should be reused is for lethal injections.


2 posted on 10/06/2015 2:12:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

The syringe should be dumped, Old Sparky was better!


3 posted on 10/06/2015 2:13:59 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: petercooper

If you like your syringe, you can keep your syringe. Gotta love Zerocare!


4 posted on 10/06/2015 2:17:14 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: petercooper

Get your vaccines folks.


5 posted on 10/06/2015 2:18:59 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: petercooper

Wonder if the nurse is a junkie keeping the needles for herself or if she is selling them. Who knows how many other patients she has done this to.


6 posted on 10/06/2015 2:23:51 PM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (Donald Trump: New York City Liberal)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

this happened in Princeton NJ. I don’t know the law in NJ but she can drive a few mile to SW Connecticut and buy syringes over the counter, no Rx


7 posted on 10/06/2015 2:31:07 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Lucy Hamilton
Old Sparky was the electric chair used in Texas. In Louisiana we called her Gruesome Gertie

'1 minute & 13 second video!!!

8 posted on 10/06/2015 2:34:04 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: petercooper

No name for the nurse? I wonder if the nurse had done this before? It might be helpful to others to identify the ‘medical professional.’


9 posted on 10/06/2015 2:41:49 PM PDT by posterchild
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Well, you wouldn’t expect a pharmaceutical company to know anything about how medicine should be administered, would you?


10 posted on 10/06/2015 2:42:40 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: petercooper

Holy cats. I don’t even reuse syringes on my livestock!


11 posted on 10/06/2015 2:43:10 PM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: Robert DeLong

Gosh that video is rather amazing.


12 posted on 10/06/2015 2:44:24 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: petercooper
Officials have not yet revealed whether disciplinary action will be taken against the nurse.

WTF? If this person is not fired and her nursing license pulled, then there is a serious problem here. She probably should face criminal charges as well. Even I know that you must not reuse any portion of the injection instrument. Common sense tells you that, even without professional training.

13 posted on 10/06/2015 2:45:02 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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If I am not mistaken, I believe the article says the same nurse failed to give the full injection at another location. Something terribly wrong with this person for sure.


14 posted on 10/06/2015 2:47:23 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

I think it would have been more amazing had we been able to see it in action. Oh Lord, I didn’t just say that did I? LOL


15 posted on 10/06/2015 2:48:30 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: petercooper

Are they hiring third-world nurses on H1B visas now or is reusing a syringe an Obamacare cost reduction program?


16 posted on 10/06/2015 2:49:10 PM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Just my opinion and only worth what you paid for it.)
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To: Robert DeLong

We never had to worry about this crap in the old vaccine lines in school in the early 60’s.

I also remember when some nurse screwed up and did this same thing on the Today show to Katie Couric and Matt Lauer. She used the same needle on both of them...


17 posted on 10/06/2015 2:50:40 PM PDT by shotgun
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The needles were changed each time but not the syringe.

Also this:

"In addition to reusing the syringes, officials also say the nurse gave a dose of the flu vaccine that was less than recommended. As a result, they advised that the employees get another flu shot."

Looks like laziness.

18 posted on 10/06/2015 2:51:02 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: dfwgator

I’m for using the hangman’s noose instead.


19 posted on 10/06/2015 2:51:26 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (1 of 172)
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To: Robert DeLong

Lol, hilarious!

We can always watch “Angels With Dirty Faces”, one must wait until near the finish, but there’s action and the anticipation of the chair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_with_Dirty_Faces

If we want a gas chamber fix, we can watch Susan Hayward in ‘I Want To Live’, there’s a full eight-minute sequence in the chamber!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_to_Live!

OMG, how sick I am, of course I’m blaming you for this! ;)


20 posted on 10/06/2015 2:53:48 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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