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Article: University of Texas Medical Center May Have Shipped Disease Body Parts.
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- August 6, 2002
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By Kevin Moran, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 6--GALVESTON, Texas--Body parts carrying infectious, and even fatal, diseases could have been sent accidentally to research facilities across the nation because of shoddy record-keeping at the University of Texas Medical Branch, the center warned Monday.
Officials here alerted 60 research programs about the possibility of infection and issued a recall of body parts shipped within an 18-month period. Some of the programs are at UTMB.
"Unembalmed body parts shipped between November 2000 and May 2002 may not have been tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV," said ...