One Needle for 200! China School Parents Erupt as HIV Rumor Surfaces Only After All TB Shots

Another disturbing incident has emerged at a school and medical facility in China. On October 29th, several vloggers on X received videos from mainland China. The post said that Kangping County Senior High School in Shen Yun, Liaoning Province, conducted PPD skin tests for tuberculosis on October 28th. They said needles were reused and large groups of students shared a single needle. One post also said a student with HIV did not disclose the infection until after others had been infected, leaving parents furious. Video footage shows large numbers of parents rushing to the school for answers. The auditorium was packed. Police officers from Kangping and many security guards were at the scene. A female school official told parents that surveillance footage and student accounts had identified two groups. She said more than 200 students in the first group had shared needles with others, while each student in the second group had a separate needle. She also promised blood tests for HIV, syphilis, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C for students who shared needles. As angry parents questioned the school official and the crowd grew restless, a security guard tried to intervene. The official stopped him. One parent pointed at the guard and shouted, The children could have HIV and you're still trying to stop us? I'm telling you, HIV! HIV! Do you understand? A heated argument followed. Several parents loudly questioned the risk of infection. and demanded that the school release the surveillance footage. That evening, Chinese news outlet Jiamian News reported that officials said the incident involved 78 students. Authorities said all 78 had undergone special testing and that none of the results showed abnormalities. A Kangping County government employee denied online rumors that first-year high school students had HIV or syphilis. The employee said authorities were identifying those responsible and further action would depend on the investigation. Some commenters challenged the official account. One wrote, testing 200 people for HIV and syphilis should take at least a week. This denial is clearly being made without proper checks. Less than 24 hours passed between the incident and the announcement. How could they already rule out HIV and syphilis? Where are the official test reports for those 200 people? They need to show evidence. Another said, authorities should provide supporting documents from several different institutions if they expected people to believe Leave the announcement. Another commenter said, look at this, the number of affected students was cut by two-thirds. That's official practice. A school official acknowledged on video that 200 people shared a needle, yet the local government can simply overturn that account. There's much more going on here. A media commentator posted, something serious happened during tuberculosis screening at Kamping County Senior High School in Shen Yun. At least these were high school students. Imagine if they were preschool or elementary school children who didn't understand what was happening. Using a new needle and tube for each person is the most basic medical rule. Even people like us, who aren't medical professionals, know that. How could the staff drawing blood not know? This is outrageous and infuriating. An ex-vlogger described the danger of sharing needles. He said that even with a shallow injection, such as a PPD blood test, a needle that has touched someone's skin or a tiny amount of blood can spread blood-borne pathogens if reused on another person. Possible risks include hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and HIV. Other blood-borne infections, including syphilis, may also spread through contaminated needles. Hepatitis B is highly infectious. It can spread through a tiny amount of blood, survives outside the body for extended periods, and carries a much higher infection risk from a single exposure than HIV. Hepatitis C spreads mainly through blood. There is currently no vaccine. And many infections become chronic. Some cases lead to cirrhosis or liver cancer. But the risk of HIV infection from a single needle stick exposure is lower, around 0.3%. But an infection cannot be reversed and may show no early symptoms. The vlogger said that if more than a dozen students really shared one needle during a school screening, it would be a serious violation of medical procedures and could lead to uncontrolled cross-infection. He added, if the screening was just a way to sell vaccines, this scheme is utterly shameless. Others on X responded. One called it unprecedented and outrageous. Another demanded a full investigation and an explanation for parents, saying children's health had been put at risk. A third wrote, having so many students share needles isn't just an accident, it's a crime. Ignoring such a basic hygiene rule is frightening. No wonder the parents rushed into the school. Public records show that Kangping County Senior High School is in the new urban district of Kangping County, Liaoning Province. It's a provincial model high school and a key high school in Liaoning. In early 2021, it had 3,000 students and 276 teachers. After the incident, the state-linked news portal NetEase Media published an article. It acknowledged the extraordinary situation, then suggested that there must be a special reason behind it. The article rejected conspiracy theories and accepted the official count of 78 affected students, but it also acknowledged that a single round of testing after the incident was far from enough. It said HIV has a testing window of one to three weeks after exposure. Even the most sensitive nucleic acid tests generally require at least a week to detect the virus. The article referred to needle sharing on October 27th and said any students infected then could not be identified through tests conducted just one or two days later. It also said hep C and syphilis infections may take more than two weeks to detect. According to the article, testing only two days after the incident would serve little purpose. There is little reason to worry about Hep B. Nearly all of these high school students were vaccinated against it at birth, so their risk is close to zero. HIV infection rates among high school students are also very low. Parents should not panic excessively. The article concluded that there was nothing wrong with Kamping County's screening students for tuberculosis. It proposed three possible reasons for the serious incident, a lack of money, carelessness, or corruption. The first possibility was a shortage of funds. The article suggested the government may have cut public health spending, leaving too little money for tuberculosis screening supplies. Medical workers might have then reused syringes to save money. In 2025, Kangping County received 1.46 billion yuan in general public revenue, but spent 3.76 billion yuan. Its outstanding government debt stood at 3.94 billion yuan at the end of the year. The article described its finances as troubling. The second possibility was that medical workers were cutting corners to finish the job faster and deliberately failed to replace syringes. Staffing shortages are common in county-level medical facilities in northeastern China. Kangping County, which is administered by the provincial capital Shen Yun, faces the same problem. According to county statistics, it had 396 medical and health facilities and 663 registered at the end of 2025. That was just 2.05 nurses per 1,000 people, compared with a national average of 4.32. Kangping's figure was less than half of the national average, highlighting a serious nursing shortage. The article acknowledged that staff shortages could lead nurses to cut corners and reuse needles to save time, but it considered that explanation less likely. Any properly trained nurse knows that changing needles between patients is one of the most basic and important rules. It should be automatic, making such a risk hard to imagine. The third possibility was corruption. Someone may have taken money from the screening budget or illegally subcontracted the work to people without medical qualifications. The author considered this the most likely explanation and said it best accounted for such an extraordinary mistake. The article suggested that an unqualified worker might not understand the consequences of sharing needles and could inject dozens of children without changing syringes. It argued that illegal subcontracting would involve bribes and pressure to reduce costs. That could also mean buying fewer disposable syringes. The article noted that Kangping County had formed a special investigation team and promised to deal seriously with violations under the law, but it expressed doubt that the county's own investigation would uncover the truth. Officials had already prematurely announced that all the test results were normal. A man identified as Mr. Z, who's familiar with misconduct in China's medical system, said this was not an ordinary medical mistake and could not be explained simply by poverty. A skin test needle costs only a few tenths of a yuan, he said, so even a poor county would not need to save money this way. He noted that a school official initially acknowledged more than 200 affected students. In his view, this suggested that the school may not have known about the the practice beforehand and did not want to take the blame. Mr. Z said the NetEase article appeared to analyze the facts, but was actually diverting public attention. It began by accepting the official count, which he said was only one-third of the true number. It then shifted attention to budget problems and medical staff cutting corners. Although it considered those explanations unlikely, it made the case appear more complicated. It eventually focused suspicion on outside contractors and corruption. In his view, this would allow authorities to downplay the incident, protect the hospital, and defend the government. He said the article also implied that a government-led investigation would achieve nothing and that the public should give up demanding answers. The speed of the official denials and efforts to shape public opinion suggest a premeditated criminal act that crossed every line. The incident may be linked to undisclosed plans by the authorities. Similar wrongdoing has become all too common in mainland China. A video circulating online recently appears to show an incident in Changsha, Hunan province. At night, an ambulance was parked on a street as several men in black carried a woman and forced her inside. She was barefoot and her clothes were disheveled. The footage suggests she may have been taken from her home against her will. She repeatedly cried for help, but no one stepped forward. The men in black wore uniforms marked Changsha Emergency Response. A police officer, in black, wearing glasses, stood nearby and watched without intervening. The ambulance carried the words Health Emergency, Emergency Medical Center, Changsha 120, and Dongxia Sheng Station. Public records show that Dongxuesheng Hospital is a secondary-level general hospital in Furong District, Changsha. Its departments include general and abdominal surgery, liver and gallbladder care, urology, cancer surgery, neurology, gynecology, and pediatrics. It has not been confirmed whether the ambulance in the video was connected to the hospital. Commenters on X outside China reacted strongly. One wrote, forcing someone into a vehicle is terrifying. It's painful to watch. Another said, People are being matched for organs everywhere, and many disappear without explanation. It's frightening. A third wrote, It's hard to just stay alive under the governance of the Chinese Communist Party. You never know when you'll be targeted and lose your life. China has become a living hell. In recent years, many incidents of people being forcibly taken away in ambulances have surfaced across several parts of China. Some people suspect possible links to crimes involving human organs. In March this year, a video circulated online showing a man on a stretcher with straps around his hips and upper arms. Three men, some wearing police uniforms and others security uniforms, lifted the stretcher onto a wheeled gurney. A medical worker in white followed behind them. A police car and an ambulance were parked nearby. The restrained man repeatedly tried to sit up, But a uniformed man pushed his head down and shouted, Stop moving, okay? Another person called out, We already told you it wouldn't cost anything. The video prompted online debate. Some speculated that the restrained man was a low-income worker who refused medical treatment because he could not afford it. Others questioned whether the police and hospitals in China would forcibly provide free care. They also said tying someone up was hardly a normal way to offer help. Many expressed fears that his organs could be taken. On January 18th, an incident in Shenzhen showed the forced abduction of a young woman by ambulance personnel. The video shows a man and a woman in medical uniforms, along with three men in black, restraining a young woman on a stretcher. She tried to kick the men and said she did not want to die. The young woman appeared weak in her arms and legs leading to speculation that she may have been given some kind of drug but she remained conscious and kept resisting because she believed she was in danger. Another woman nearby appeared to call for help but she could not stop the five people. A bystander demanded to know which hospital the supposed medical workers came from, whether police had been notified and whether the incident had been registered. The bystander accused them of dragging the woman away by force. They did not respond and quickly left the scene. On October 29th, an overseas Breaking Events vlogger posted information from someone who identified himself as a doctor inside Xiangya Hospital. The allegations concerned the sources of organs, the hospital's internal operations, and relationships among people involved. The source said Xiangya Hospital's business had changed significantly. According to him, almost the entire hospital now revolves around organ transplants. He said the financial interests behind transplantation are far more complex than outsiders realize. He also said the revelations were only the tip of the iceberg. The situation has reportedly made hospital employees uneasy, with some staff members and their families reluctant to seek medical treatment there. The source said some organs used by Xiangya Hospital came from within China, but that Myanmar was another major source. He further alleged that Liao Jingfang, who was recently sentenced to death for operating a network of scam centers in Myanmar, had acted as an intermediary. On October 13th, Liao Jingfang from Hunan province was sentenced to death at the first instance by the Quanzhou Intermediate People's Court in Fujian. His convictions included fraud, intentional homicide, extortion, and organizing illegal border crossings. The court also ordered the confiscation of all his personal property Wei Huaren, a leading member of the Wei family criminal group, and his nephew Chen Dawei also received death sentences in the same case. Liao grew up in Nanxiang as a child left behind by his parents. He became involved in street gangs at a young age, later entered telecom fraud compounds in northern Myanmar, and eventually became an important manager in the Wei family's criminal criminal organization. After returning to China, Liao Jingfang allegedly helped connect Xiangya Hospital with fraud compounds in Myanmar, which supplied large numbers of organs. The source said the hospital then expanded its organ transplant operations on a large scale. The source further alleged that Xiangya Hospital did not face comparable scrutiny after Liao was sentenced to death because it had powerful connections and protection. He said the hospital had gained political credit by supplying organ transplant resources to the central authorities. As a result, even though Liao faced prosecution, the hospital was not similarly implicated. As for why Liao was ultimately sentenced to death, the source believed China had to take legal action under pressure from the United States, amid stronger crackdowns on related crimes in Southeast Asia. Otherwise, Beijing would have struggled to answer the international community. In his view, Liao became a scapegoat, a disposable operative for the criminal group. Mr. Xi said, the wrongdoing now emerging in China is beyond what most people can imagine. The report that 200 students shared needles raises frightening possibilities. Most troubling of all is that the truth may never come out in China.