Biomedical Tissue Services, a New Jersey company, is accused of taking bones, tendons, ligaments, skin and other tissue from infected dead bodies and planting them in different people. At least 8,000 people received BTS tissue.
Lawsuits have been filed from people claiming that they caught a hepititis virus, AIDS or syphilis bacteria from the tissue implanted in different operations. About two dozen lawsuits have been filed in federal courts across the country.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration have said the chance of connection between getting a disease and BTS tissue is low. But lawyers are challenging that statement.
Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, a medical expert said that it will be tough to determine about any connection between the infection in the tissue recipient and the tissue donor.
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