Anyone who went to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque on April 24 for a free diabetes screening conducted by students from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine Physician Assistant program may have been exposed to diseases like Hepatitis B and C and/or HIV.
The exposure, according to a news report published by The New Mexico Independent on May 14, is the result of the students reusing “finger pricking” blood sugar testing devices meant for one patient, which exposed patients to another person’s blood. Making matters worse, the students had not been properly trained to use the device and did not keep records of the people it used them on.
Though the university says the risk of exposure is slight, it still wants to get in contact with the 51 to 55 people who were tested that day.
To learn more about the incident or to find out who to contact, go to: http://contact.health.unm.edu/
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