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Thousands Possibly Exposed To HIV, Hepatitis At Saddle Brook Surgery Center Thousands Possibly Exposed To HIV, Hepatitis At Saddle Brook Surgery Center
Thousands Possibly Exposed To HIV, Hepatitis At Saddle Brook Surgery Center In what the state health department is calling an "abundance of caution," a surgery center in Saddle Brook is urging thousands of people who underwent procedures at the facility between January and Sept. 7 to get tested for HIV and hepatitis. State health officials said more than 3,000 patients at HealthPlus Surgery Center may have been exposed to the bloodborne infections due to "deficiencies in infection control" involving the cleaning of instruments and injection of medications, ABC7 reports, citing the center's surgery administrator Betty McCabe.  The following letter was…

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by Cecilia Levine