Home treatment proved costly for 40-odd patients in Texas and Illinois, among them 20 outpatients at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, as they were infected with some mysterious sickness through tainted medical syringes they had used for treatment of cancer and other ailments.

Doctors have confirmed that the affliction was linked to the contaminated a single batch of syringes manufactured by a North Carolina company, Sierra Pre-Filled. These needles said to have been crammed with heparin bacteria.

The lot of these needles has immediately been recalled in the wake of this development, according to the president of the company. He said they were offering full cooperation to with the CDC and Food and Drug Administration to get to the bottom of this episode.

However, it is yet to be confirmed if the source of this infection was the heparin, the saline used to dilute the drug or the syringes.