Do I need to sanitize input if using prepared PHP/MySQL queries?

No you don't have to escape it or sanitize it for injection protection. For other app specific things you may sanitize it though.

Gary: You copied that fragment of code straight from the manual at php.net about mysqli::prepare. On that same page is the following text.

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