Syringes contaminated with bacteria make dozens sick

Blood infections by the dozens were being reported an investigated yesterday as medical syringes contaminated with bacteria were being sought after as the cause of over 40 sick patients.

In Illinois and Texas, more than three dozen people fell ill after having needles stuck in various places for various reasons, including 20 outpatients from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

Although the exact cause of how these supposedly sterile needles became infected with bacteria is unknown at this time, and no deaths were reported due to the contamination.

Experts do suspect that the contamination was actually in the fluid inside the syringes themselves (not on the syringe) as part of the heparin blood thinner used in many patients undergoing a variety of treatments.