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PAHO Official Calls Deaths in Haiti 'Terrible Tragedy'

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 15th, 1996

A senior official of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) called the deaths in Haiti from contaminated fever medicine "a terrible tragedy that must not be repeated."

PAHO has been helping Haiti's Ministry of Health investigate an epidemic of kidney failure that has killed at least 30 Haitian children and poisoned 40 others, apparently caused by contaminated liquid acetaminophen manufactured by a local pharmaceutical company. "The tragedy of these children's deaths points up the need for increased quality control and good manufacturing practices to prevent this type of thing from happening again," said Dr. Stephen Corber, PAHO.

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