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Suspect in counterfeit drugs ring at large [[Bejing, China]]
The Ministry of Public Security put up a notice on its website Thursday offering 10,000 yuan (1,460 U.S. dollars) for information on a man suspected of leading a drug ring pushing fake diabetes medication that has caused the deaths of at least two people. Li Dong, the main suspect at large, was born in 1970…
[...]Dominican officials allow fake medicines, drugmakers say [[Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic]]
SANTO DOMINGO. – The Dominican pharmaceutical sector, grouped in three associations, yesterday accused the Public Health authorities of negligence for allowing the growth of the fake medicines market of around 800 to billion pesos per year, and doesn’t discard that other deaths have occurred for the use of fake anti tetanus boosters. 6 February 2009
[...]84 Children Are Killed by Medicine in Nigeria
A toxic chemical mixed into a teething medicine for babies has killed at least 84 children in Nigeria, health officials there said Friday, more than tripling the toll in a wave of infant deaths that began in late November. The children died after taking a medicine called My Pikin Baby Teething Mixture, a syrup for…
[...]Fake diabetes medicine seized in two more provinces [[Sichuan, China]]
Mainland authorities have found more than 5,000 bottles of fake diabetes medication in two provinces that last month were blamed for the deaths of two patients, state media said. The patients died in Xinjiang. Now the government has found the same fake drug in Sichuan and Qinghai, state radio said. But nobody has yet been…
[...]Counterfeit Drugs Pose Problem for Kenya [[Nairobi, Kenya]]
Pharmaceutical industry officials in Kenya estimate that at least 40 percent of the drugs sold in the East African nation are counterfeit, with anti-malarial drugs being especially susceptible to being faked. Patients continue to be sick or can even die as a result of taking counterfeit drugs, most are believed to originate from China and…
[...]Fake diabetes drug hospitalizes 9 in NW China’s Xinjiang [[Xinjiang, China]]
URUMQI, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) — Nine people were hospitalized after taking a counterfeit diabetes drug in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that last month caused the death of two others, said the local government Tuesday. Four of the nine people were being treated in Kashi People's Hospital and are in stable condition. Five others…
[...]Thousands ‘have taken fake drugs’ [[London, England]]
Thirty-thousand packs of fake life-saving drugs may have been consumed by NHS patients, the BBC has learned. A senior official from the government's medicines watchdog said the case must lead to tightening of the law.
[...]Counterfeit drugs pose serious threat to public [[Hanoi, Viet Nam]]
Fake drugs on sale at markets across the nation are posing a serious threat to public health, according to the Viet Nam Drugs Administration. More and more fake drugs are being discovered by drug inspectors each year, with the problem now escalating to an urgent threat. Fake drugs can lengthen the time it takes to…
[...]Fake vaccine led to deaths of two women [[Anhui, China]]
Two people responsible for the deaths of a mother and a grandmother from rabies have been jailed, the Fengxian District People's Court said yesterday. An Xiuya, an Anhui Province native, was sentenced to 11 years for selling fake medicine and Xia Renguan, a clinic operator, to seven years for illegal medical practice. 25 December 2008…
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