POLICE BAN ON NEW DRUG
DEATHS REPORTED IN FRANCE
(Rec. 8 p.m.) PARIS, July 6. Police combed chemists’ shops throughout France tonight for bottles of a new “wonder drug,” Stalinon, which is believed to be responsible for 14 deaths. The drug—intended as a treatment for boils and abscesses —is considered by police doctors to be causing encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). The latest victims attributed to the drug are a man and a woman in Cambrai, eastern France, who died from encephalitis after the drug had been prescribed for them. A similar case was reported from| La Bachellerie in Central France, last night, and a small boy admitted to a Paris hospital after receiving Stalinon treatment was reported today to be seriously ill. „ . The Ministry of Health banned further sales of the drug yesterday, and chemists are asked to hand over ■ the 2400 bottles distributed since the • drug was first put on the market a . few months ago. > Health authorities approved the drug - last January, but mice treated with it » in a Paris laboratory yesterday died immediately.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27396, 8 July 1954, Page 11
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