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States Face Huge Task In Tracking Meningitis-Tainted Drugs

Posted by timothy on from the call-all-your-former-spinal-tap-partners dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Confronted with a growing meningitis scare, states are coming under enormous pressure to meet federal requests that they contact more than 1,000 hospitals and clinics that received any injectable drugs from the company at the center of the deadly outbreak."

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  1. Get rid of the FDA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get rid of the FDA and let the free market sort this out.

    1. Re:Get rid of the FDA by game+kid · · Score: 3, Funny

      While we're at it, let's bulldoze those damn hippie free clinics and replace them with good-paying private hospitals.

      Then we'll have what it takes to Create Jobs(tm)!

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