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AP Exxon-Mobil Workers Got Fake Flu Shots By WENDY BENJAMINSON, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago HOUSTON - As many as 1,000 Exxon Mobil employees and 14 residents of a se nior citizens home were injected with fake flu vaccine, authorities said Friday, and the owner of a home health care company was arrested.
AIDS virus and hepatitis B and C Exxon Mobil offered blood tests and counseling to the employees who recei ved the shots at a health fair Oct. El Hawa, owner of Comfort & Caring Home Health and two other home health centers in Houston, was cha rged with Medicare fraud in connection with shots given to 14 elderly pe ople at a home in LaPorte on Oct. When asked if El Hawa would be charged with giving bogus shots at the Exx on Mobil fair, prosecutors said only that their investigation is continu ing. "This is a very callous and disturbing crime," Rosenberg said. A call to Comfort & Caring was not immediately returned.
The nurse, who was not identified, told authorities that she thought it o dd that company employees did not know about lot numbers used to track v accines. The nurse also became concerned when a Hawa employee said he ha d pricked his finger a few times while filling the syringes, and not to let the doctor at the health fair examine the syringes, according to the FBI. The nurse kept two of the syringes and gave them to the FBI. Medicare fraud carries up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 fine. In May, a nurse in Minnesota, Michelle Torgerson, pleaded guilty to charg es she used diluted flu vaccine left over from an earlier clinic and gav e college students shots at $20 each.
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