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In 2008, 19 Americans died as a result of taking counterfeit heparin that had been imported from: Answer a. North Korea b. Iran c. China d. Canada e. Thailand

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This counterfeit heparin came from China - the correct answer is c.


Some reports mention even bigger numbers of deaths - almost a 100 in the US and many more in Africa. For context- heparin is a blood thinning drug which is given to HIV pacients to limit the effects of the virus.
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