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Hepatitis scare stokes concerns about needles, syringes

Last week, nurse Roseann Nitz got a question from a patient unlike any other she's fielded in two decades.

The patient asked Nitz, who works in an Amityville health clinic, to replace the needle and syringe that the nurse had just prepared in order to give an injection. The patient wanted to watch as a new needle and syringe were taken out of their packaging.

Nitz willingly complied,...

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