Boston health officials over the weekend began notifying 57 people who, they say, may have been exposed to blood-borne illnesses in the summer of 2011 when they were treated by a city ambulance paramedic now believed to have tampered with vials of painkillers and sedatives.
The telephone calls to potential victims will be followed up Monday with letters offering free medical tests to determine if they were exposed to infectious diseases.
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Of all the more babbling balderdash news reports run in the Boston Globe, this has to come close to the top. Boston city officials are trying to notify 57 people they 'may have been exposed' to serious illnesses more than a year ago by a paramedic on a city ambulance who is 'now believed to have tampered' with drugs. And that is just in the lead paragraph. Further on, these city officials don't know if the paramedic carried his own contagious disease (but they don't think so), how he may have tampered with the painkillers and other drugs. The alleged tampering was discovered more than a year ago, but the city is just now getting around to notifying the 57 persons who may have been infected. And the chief of the city's health service won't say how the now reportedly suspended paramedic may have tampered with the alleged drugs. There also doesn't seem to be much, if any, info in this story about how the 57 people were (maybe) impacted by this situation (like whether the suspect paramedic may have injected them or what). But sudden weekend phone calls to be followed by letters a year after the suspicions came to light?? This seems like a story meant to a) relate a maybe, perhaps Boston case, to a seems to be for sure New Hampshire drug tampering case or b) an excess of journalistic be there firstest with the mostest no matter if it does panic a few folks in Boston.