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Contaminated flu-shot syringes draw quick response

OSHA Healthcare Connection, January 22, 2008

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The New York Sate Health Department has investigated a doctor who reused syringes when giving influenza vaccinations last fall.

Dr. E. Jacob Simhaee, a Manhasset obstetrician-gynecologist, has sent letters to 36 of his patients urging them to be tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV, and to be revaccinated for influenza, reports Newsday, January 15.

The quickness of the health department's response is in marked contrast to the three years it took to investigate another New York doctor, Harvey Finkelstein, who had reused syringes, which resulted in transmission of hepatitis C, according to Newsday. In that case, more than 10,000 patients received notification of possible infections from contaminated syringes.



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