Word: chloramphenicol
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...banned drug nitrofuran, which is dangerous to humans, were found by European Union inspectors in shrimp from Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. According to Wang Sihe, an expert with the Jiangsu Seawater Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese shrimp farms have mixed fish food with antibiotics and dumped it into fish ponds. Chloramphenicol, an antibiotic that can cause fatal anemia in humans, has also been used...
...Philippines, chloramphenicol, a formidable antibiotic, is prescribed for infections ranging from flu to acne. The standard drug guide used by Filipino doctors does not carry warnings of a possible side effect: a deadly form of anemia...
...Southeast Asia without sufficient warnings that the antibiotic can discolor children's teeth. California-based Syntex Corp. is taken to task for failing to publish standard warnings on birth control pills sold in Singapore and Malaysia; Parke-Davis and Dow Chemical, for not publicizing the perils of chloramphenicol in Asian drug manuals...
...roadside outlets for stolen pills flourish in much of Africa and Asia. Even when controls exist, enforcement may fail. Philippines officials told a TIME reporter that clioquinol is no longer available, yet the reporter bought it (Ciba's Mexaform) at a major Manila drugstore. Parke-Davis' chloramphenicol and Upjohn's tetracycline were also available-no prescriptions requested, no warnings offered...
Miracle drugs are even more overworked in Third World countries, because they are often sold over the counter, with out a prescription, even though antibiotics can have toxic side effects. U.S. physicians, for instance, know that Chloramphenicol should be prescribed only for life-threatening infections, since it can cause a breakdown in red blood cells. Physicians in Latin America, however, have been urged by manufacturers to use the drug for such minor ailments as tonsillitis and whooping cough...