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GALVESTON, Texas (AP) —
A medical center is recalling
body parts from research facili
ties around the country that might
not have been properly tested for
infectious diseases, such as HIV,
the virus that causes AIDS.
Embalmed body parts, which
carry no risk of infection, are pri
marily used to train doctors in
surgical techniques, but
University of Texas Medical
Branch officials said Tuesday that
unpreserved parts, such as feet,
knees and elbows, might have
been sent to researchers at 60
programs around the country.
Officials didn’t have figures on
how many parts might have been
shipped. They said they could not
guarantee the parts did not pose a
risk to transplant patients, but said
the school’s tissues typically are
not sent to programs that would
use them in transplant patients and
the risk to public
health is “negli
gible and proba
bly zero.”
The school
has asked
research pro
grams and pri
vate clinics that
received parts
from its Willed
Body Program
during an 18-
month period to
either destroy
the parts or send
them back at
UTMB’s expense. Letters were
mailed over the weekend and
With these pre-
cautionsy the risks go
way down. The im
pact on public
health is negligible
and probably zero.
— Steven Lieberman
UTMB associate dean
notifications continued arriving
Tuesday, officials said.
“We deeply regret this has
happened. We
make no excuses
for it,” said Steven
Lieberman,
UTMB associate
dean for educa
tional affairs.
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proactive in letting
people know what
happened. We’re
not trying to hide
anything.”
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account for how
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period from November 2000
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percent of young Texas chil
dren were fully immunized
against seven diseases in 2001,
according to a new Centers for
Disease Control and
Prevention study.
The 2001 figure is up from
69.5 percent the previous year,
moving Texas out of last place
to 43rd in the nation for the
number of children ages 19
months to 35 months who have
received the vaccinations.
The vaccination series in
the study includes four doses
of diptheria-tetanus-acellular
pertussis (DTaP), three doses
of polio and one dose of
measles-mumps-rubella
(MMR).
“It is very good news that
we are coming up in our immu
nization levels,” said Linda
Linville, chief of the Texas
Department of Health Bureau
of Immunization and
Pharmacy Support. “Having
been ranked last, it’s good to
move up some points.”
The national immunization
rate was 78.6 P ercent- ^ v |
77.6 percent in 2000. L
said Tuesday that the
ment’s goal for next ye
at least meet the
average. . ,
Dr. Eduardo Sanchez,
Texas Comm iss ' oner
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led to the increased^
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awareness of the import
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90 percent of the state
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