Alternative Medicines

Weight Loss Agent Leads to M. abscessus Infection

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 30th, 1996

An injectable adrenal cortex extract used by a Colorado physician as a weight-loss aid caused Mycobacterium abscessus infections in 68 percent of treated patients, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The extract, which is also used as an alternative therapy in AIDS patients, was also responsible for several cases of infection in Wyoming patients treated by the same doctor. The injections were given between the summer of 1995 and the spring of 1996.

An investigation of these episodes by the physician and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment indicate that injection-site abscesses were...

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