BEIJING — Six people died after being injected with a human antibody in eastern China, a hospital spokeswoman said Monday, the latest case of deaths caused by suspect medicine.
The six died after being injected with immune globulin, and the company that sold the drugs was ordered to stop selling them, said a spokeswoman at the No. 2 Hospital at Nanchang University in Jiangxi province.
The drugs were produced by Jiangxi Boya Bio-Pharmaceutical Co. A notice on the company’s website said the cause of the deaths was still under investigation.
The company said it had shipped more than 9,000 doses of the same batch to hospitals around China, of which 3,192 had been used without any problems. The remainder had been recalled. The statement did not mention exports.
