Waste Closes Beach 2nd Time
MINEOLA, N.Y. — More hospital waste, including intravenous tubing and vials of blood, washed ashore today on a Long Island beach at Robert Moses State Park, and officials declared it off limits for swimmers just a few hours after it had been reopened.
Swimming bans were lifted today on other beaches along a 25-mile stretch of the island’s south shore, but officials warned that winds and tides could bring more debris and force more closings. There was no word on where the material came from. Five blood-filled vials that washed up on the New Jersey shore last weekend contained AIDS-contaminated blood.
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