A New York hospital warned 4,247 people of potential exposure to
hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV after authorities discovered a risk of
potential blood contamination.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease
Control both released strongly worded statements between 2009 and
2012 following a rash of similar incidents at other hospitals
that put more than 2,000 patients at risk. The agency warned it had become “increasingly aware of
reports of improper use of insulin pens that must never be used
on more than one person.”
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