STAT Plus: Two dead, four hospitalized after receiving Open Biome stool transplants
Two people died and four were hospitalized after they received stool transplants from OpenBiome, the Food and Drug Administration and the commercial stool bank announced Thursday.
The FDA’s safety alert said eight patients may have been affected by stool transplants from three donors whose stool contained illness-causing bacteria. In the six patients who are still alive, OpenBiome identified the type of bacteria present in the stool that caused the infections. In those who died, neither the agency nor the company can definitively say that the transplants caused those deaths.
