Syringe sting rattles cab rider
By Xiao Li |
August 25, 2012, Saturday
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A 37-YEAR-OLD Beijing man was scared to death after he was accidentally pricked by a needle of a suspected HIV-tainted syringe left behind in a local taxi.
Xu Tian was riding in the taxi on Tuesday night when he felt a sting in his left knee and found a syringe sticking out of the magazine rack behind the car's front seat.
The cabbie surnamed Gong found thick liquid inside the syringe and immediately drove Xu to a hospital but it couldn't identify the liquid, The Beijing News reported yesterday.
The Chaoyang District Disease Prevention and Control Center later launched a test and suspected that the syringe may have been contaminated by the AIDS-causing virus. Xu was told to see doctors at Beijing Ditan Hospital on Wednesday.
A preliminary blood test showed Xu wasn't infected with the fatal virus but he was told to wait another three months to completely rule out a potential HIV infection.
Gong said he had no clue about the syringe user. "I got four set of passengers after 6pm and three women sat in the rear seat, but I didn't notice any of them placing anything in the rack," he insisted.
Xu said he had spent 2,500 yuan (US$393.5) on medicines to curb the spread of the virus inside his body and he felt like vomiting after taking the pills.
Lun Wenhui, a doctor at Beijing Ditan Hospital, said the suspected virus normally dies in dry conditions and since Xu took the medicines within 24 hours, he should be safe.
However, Xu is still depressed because his girlfriend wants to break up with him after hearing about the needle incident.
Xu Tian was riding in the taxi on Tuesday night when he felt a sting in his left knee and found a syringe sticking out of the magazine rack behind the car's front seat.
The cabbie surnamed Gong found thick liquid inside the syringe and immediately drove Xu to a hospital but it couldn't identify the liquid, The Beijing News reported yesterday.
The Chaoyang District Disease Prevention and Control Center later launched a test and suspected that the syringe may have been contaminated by the AIDS-causing virus. Xu was told to see doctors at Beijing Ditan Hospital on Wednesday.
A preliminary blood test showed Xu wasn't infected with the fatal virus but he was told to wait another three months to completely rule out a potential HIV infection.
Gong said he had no clue about the syringe user. "I got four set of passengers after 6pm and three women sat in the rear seat, but I didn't notice any of them placing anything in the rack," he insisted.
Xu said he had spent 2,500 yuan (US$393.5) on medicines to curb the spread of the virus inside his body and he felt like vomiting after taking the pills.
Lun Wenhui, a doctor at Beijing Ditan Hospital, said the suspected virus normally dies in dry conditions and since Xu took the medicines within 24 hours, he should be safe.
However, Xu is still depressed because his girlfriend wants to break up with him after hearing about the needle incident.
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