Chinese drug = Hepatitis C

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Health ministry suspends use of hepatitis C-causing blood drug

Chinese Ministry of Health on Wednesday banned the use of a blood-based drug

which is believed to have infected users with hepatitis C.

Local health authorities must order all medical institutions to register

patients who have used the drug, produced by Guangdong Bioyee Pharmaceutical Co.

Ltd., said the ministry in an urgent statement.

Those who have used the intravenously administered drug must be given blood

tests for hepatitis C nucleic acid and antibodies, and should be put under close

observation.

" Immediate measures must be taken if the patients show abnormal symptoms, " said

the ministry...

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