Oops: School Staff Given Insulin Instead Of Swine Flu Vaccination


A number of school officials and staff members at a Wellesley, Massachusetts elementary school have been hospitalized after they were injected with insulin. They were supposed to be getting a swine flu vaccination.

Superintendent Bella Wong stressed that no students were endangered in Schofield Elementary’s Friday medical mix-up and that all of those affected have since recovered.

The Associated Press reports that Wong sent a letter to staff and parents explaining that the insulin involved belonged to students with diabetes and that an unnamed nurse had been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.

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  • Diving In Dahab
    27 April 2010 at 3:00 am
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    what a Shame? ?? its a scandel

  • Diving In Dahab
    26 April 2010 at 10:00 pm
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    what a Shame? ?? its a scandel

  • English course
    22 June 2010 at 11:29 am
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    This should be looked into THOROUGHLY it’s actually a disgrace

  • English course
    22 June 2010 at 6:29 am
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    This should be looked into THOROUGHLY it’s actually a disgrace

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