NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Pennsylvania Department of Health, along with federal health officials report investigating multiple clusters of non-respiratory Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) infections...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reports investigating a cluster of Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) infection in dialysis patients. The Department...

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reports investigating a cluster of invasive Burkholderia cepacia infection affecting nine persons who had a history of injecting drugs. The affected...

A multistate outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) has been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of May 7, 2018, CDC reports that there are 10 confirmed cases...

Mid Valley Pharmaceutical is recalling lot# 23221701 of Doctor Manzanilla Cough & Cold and lot# 23221701 of Doctor Manzanilla Allergy & Decongestant Relief syrup to the consumer level.  The products...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers and health care professionals not to use any liquid drug or dietary supplement products manufactured by PharmaTech LLC of Davie, Florida, and...

Infection prevention and control experts at Texas Children’s Hospital halted a 24-patient outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia in critically ill children after identifying docusate, a liquid stool softener,...

The number of Burkholderia cepacia bloodstream infections associated with contaminated prefilled saline flush syringes has increased by more than 100 in the past month, according to the most recent data...

In a follow-up to the multistate outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia linked to oral liquid docusate sodium manufactured by PharmaTech, Davie, Florida, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported this...

An outbreak of the bacterium, Burkholderia cepacia, at Hospital Dr. Luis Felipe Guevara Rojas in El Tigre, Anzoátegui State, Venezuela has sickened 22 infants, according to the College of Physicians...