Health experts with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are warning travelers considering medical tourism abroad of three cases of infections that they say are linked to stem-cell treatments in Mexico.
In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published on May 9, the health agency described the infections of mycobacterium abscessus—a type of bacteria distantly related to the ones that cause tuberculosis and leprosy—as “difficult-to-treat” and “intrinsically drug-resistant.”
