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San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, November 13, 1992
The child, identified as Rodney Griffith, was with his mother on a Fremont-bound train between Hayward and Union City at about 12:30 p.m. Monday when he found the needle between the seat cushions, said BART police spokesman Ron Rodriguez.
The boy took the cap off the syringe and accidentally pricked himself in the right palm as his mother, Joycelin Olden, of Richmond, attempted to take the needle away.
He was rushed to Washington Hospital in Fremont, where he was given a tetanus shot and possibly a Hepatitis B vaccination, hospital officials said.
Olden said she plans to have her son tested for HIV. Doctors said, however, that there is a less than 1 percent chance of contracting the virus that way.
Laboratory tests were unable to determine what substance, if any, was in the syringe, BART spokesman Michael Healy said.
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