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O.C. health officials warn of botulism ‘epidemic’ from heroin injections

Three people have been hospitalized over the past month, two in an intensive care unit, for botulism associated with injecting heroin, Orange County Health Care Agency officials said Wednesday. “Wound botulism” comes from injecting “black tar heroin” into tissue, rather than into a vein. Subcutaneous injection is known in the vernacular as skin popping, health […]

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