Volume 3   Issue  36                        November   2004

                 

Two Botulism Cases Could Be Linked To Botox
WBNS TV, November 29, 2004

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Health officials are investigating whether a Florida man and woman got botulism from Botox injections. A spokesman for the Palm Beach County Health Department says both patients got Botox at the same clinic in Broward County. They've since been hospitalized.

Botox is a derivative of the toxin that causes botulism. It's used as an anti-wrinkle drug. A spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the agency is trying to learn whether the Florida cases and two cases elsewhere are "related to Botox."

A Florida woman died last year after suffering an allergic reaction to Botox. But the company that makes the drug stresses its safety record --saying just seven people had serious side effects in the 1990s.

Copyright 2004 Associated Press.
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