Long Island hospital confirms flood of phone calls after insulin scare

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Thousands of patients at a Long Island hospital could have been exposed to a dangerous disease, all because of one big mistake. Now they're being asked to get tested.

It's a letter no one wants to get but it's one some 42 hundred patients of South Nassau Communities Hospital have received.

It says that they should get tested for Hepatits B, C and HIV if they recently received an insulin pen injection at the hospital.

Michael Byrd came to check on his elderly mother who is diabetic and is being treated there.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/long_island&id=9467463
 
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