Death mystery from rare bug moves beyond links to abortion pill

Posted on Wed, May. 10,
Death mystery from rare bug moves beyond links to abortion pill

ANDREW BRIDGES
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - A rare germ that killed four California women who took the abortion pill RU-486 has been implicated in the deaths of even more women following childbirth or miscarriage, broadening the debate beyond abortion on the eve of a meeting to examine the bacterial mystery.

While the abortion link has grabbed the most attention, Clostridium sordellii has killed at least 11 other women, women's health experts said in interviews. That's more than twice as many as have died of infection after taking the abortion pill, also called Mifeprex or mifepristone.

The numbers suggest the bacterium's threat, while still limited, could be broader than previously thought.

"That's a critical question: Is this association between use of Mifeprex and infection with C. sordellii ... or is it something more general?" asked Susan Wood, the former top women's health official at the Food and Drug Administration. She thinks it's the latter.

Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health and FDA are meeting Thursday in Atlanta to decide what research is needed to better understand the emerging threat posed by C. sordellii and a second bacterium, Clostridium difficile. The second germ is not linked to the abortion pill but is growing in prevalence in hospitals and nursing homes, and is increasingly resistant to antibiotics.


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Those rightwingnut FDA fucks will grab at anything to keep from obeying the scientists' mandate to make it available over-the-counter.

Lying, scheming bastards.

Wouldn't Jesus be proud of them?

There was a thread about it a week or so on DU about it. With two or three of the four women, doctors had already found their deaths had nothing to do with RU-486.

And it looks like they are not all directly related to the morning after pill....

The father that is trying to get it banned is suffering the loss of his daughter...but he along with others impede the research trying to figure out what the bug is...

"Opponents of the abortion pill have seized on those deaths - along with hundreds more complications after pill-induced abortions - to call for pulling Mifeprex from the market. A congressional hearing is set for next week, where Monty Patterson, a California man whose 18-year-old daughter died in 2003 after taking the abortion pill, is expected to renew his call for a ban. Also expected to testify is a doctor from the American Association of Pro Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists."

:kick:

nt

It is a KR paper and was subject to a hostile takeover.

Enjoy it while you can. It is also the paper that exposed the Iran-Contra links.


Sigh........

sounds like it is the terri schiavo effect..

more bullshit..

more hypocracy...

more lies...

but the anti abortion crowd sure don't want to talk about that.