On 2009/04/24, at 2:23 PM, Harry Wyeth wrote:
As a horse owner, I am shocked by the deaths of the polo horses in
Florida. It seems there was a pharmacy error in compounding the
stuff that was given the horses that died. I will try, and maybe
others can also, to see if there was a metric/"traditional" mixup in
preparing the compound.
See
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7411620&page=1
HARRY WYETH
Dear Harry,
This paragraph is from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042303210.html?hpid=moreheadlines
:
Several medical experts said that a supplement including those
ingredients would cause death only in the case of a massive overdose
of one of the ingredients, such as 100 or 1,000 times the specified
amount.
It might give you a clue if a factor of 1000 is involved that it was
due to a prefix error.
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