From: Ian blenkharn@ianblenkharn.com
Category: News & information
Date: 25 Aug 2008
Time: 11:56:51 +0200
Remote Name: 86.146.8.18
"A second incident of a beachgoer being stuck with a needle was reported on Thursday, the first time in many years that medical waste has been a summer hazard.
"Elizabeth Polzello of Trumbull said that she was walking on a private stretch of Silver Beach on July 20, in front of her uncle's East Broadway cottage, when a needle used to inject insulin jabbed into her heel.
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It might be nice to imagine that the needle was used by a diabetic to inject insulin, and not an intravenous drug abuser to inject heroin, but its a big assumption and the risk remains unless unequivocal evidence exists. Discarded needles are a huge danger. Those 'lost' within long grass, or sand, or snow, are especially dangerous.