Other Human Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
Federal regulators shed more light on the potential harm to patients from a controversial medical scope, disclosing 142 reports of contaminated devices and possible patient infections since 2010. The Food and Drug Administration had previously said it received about half that many reports, 75, on duodenoscopes that caused patient infections in 2013 and 2014. The number of patients involved could be far higher than 142 because one adverse event report may include numerous people.
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