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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

New NC Law Aims to Prevent Infectious Diseases

WAYNE COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) – Unsafe practices used in blood sugar monitoring led to a hepatitis outbreak that killed six people at a Wayne County nursing home. Now North Carolina legislators are hoping a new law will prevent something like this from happening again.

In late 2010 investigators discovered staff at GlenCare Assisted Living Center had been spreading infections by re-using fingersticks and other tools to test diabetes patients. At the time residents were still trying to make sense of it all.

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