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Article: Update: Two more deaths caused by faulty antibiotic.
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- China Business News
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- August 7, 2006
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Update: Two more deaths caused by faulty antibiotic
Shanghai. August 7. INTERFAX-CHINA - Two more deaths have been reported following China's ban of a faulty antibiotic.
The authorities banned Clindamycin Phosphate Glucose Injection on Friday following the death of a six-year-old Heilongjiang Province girl. State media have since reported that a 48-year-old patient in Central China's Hubei Province died on August 2 after taking the same batch of the injection and the third victim was a man in his 70s in Hebei Province.
So far, a total of 81 Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) to the drug have been reported in ten provinces. According to the latest ...