Eduardo Cuevas – USA TODAY –
Health experts are alerting travelers considering medical care abroad about a trio of recent drug-resistant bacterial infections caused by stem cell injections at Mexican clinics.
After stem cell treatments abroad, three Americans became infected by mycobacterium abscessus, a distant relative of the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and leprosy. In a report published Thursday, U.S. medical experts said they fear additional infections from the injections could have been missed.
