Medical tourism: CDC recommends that people do not have surgical procedures at the CIPLA clinic in the Dominican Republic

In a follow-up to a report last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice to medical tourists to the Dominican Republic. Serious infections with bacteria-called nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM)-recently have been reported in US residents who had cosmetic surgery on the island. Most, but not all, of these people had surgery ["]

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