The Food and Drug Administration expanded their warnings about medical scopes spreading infections, issuing an alert about contaminated bronchoscopes, according to an article on the Los Angeles Times website.
The FDA is investigating reports that bronchoscopes are causing infections in patients after they were cleaned.
No deaths from tainted bronchoscopes have been reported and the FDA is evaluating what factors contributed to the infections.
At this time, the FDA said, the risk of infection from bronchoscopes “appears to be lower” than the risk posed by duodenoscopes, the article said.
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