Nicoletta Lanese is the health channel editor at Live Science and was previously a news editor and staff writer at the site. She holds a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz and degrees in neuroscience and dance from the University of Florida.
Three people who traveled to Mexico for stem-cell injections that are not approved in the U.S. contracted difficult-to-treat, drug-resistant infections, a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday .
For a given patient, doctors may have to test different drugs against samples of bacteria from their body, in order to find the most lethal combination against the drug-resistant bug. "Providers and public health agencies need to be aware of the risk for M. abscessus infections from stem cell treatments for indications not approved by the Food and Drug Administration and maintain vigilance for similar cases," the report's authors wrote."They also are advised to provide guidance for persons considering medical tourism."
The first of the three cases involved a Colorado woman in her 30s, who in October 2022 had traveled to Baja California to get stem-cell injections in the tissues that surround the brain and spinal cord. RELATED STORIES—Woman is 1st to survive infection with deadly 'blackleg' bacteria she caught while gardening bare-handed—'Vampire' bacteria thirst for human blood — and cause deadly infections as they feed
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