University of Texas Medical Center May Have Shipped Disease Body Parts.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: August 6, 2002 | Copyright information

By Kevin Moran, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 6--GALVESTON, Texas--Body parts carrying infectious, and even fatal, diseases could have been sent accidentally to research facilities across the nation because of shoddy record-keeping at the University of Texas Medical Branch, the center warned Monday.

Officials here alerted 60 research programs about the possibility of infection and issued a recall of body parts shipped within an 18...

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