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A Rare Illness on the Increase.
"It even absorbs the worry," proclaimed Procter 8c Gamble when it first distributed its tampon products. But decades later in 1980, Procter & Gamble had plenty of worries. After 344 cases of a rare and baffling illness were reported in 1980, the Centers for Disease Control linked women's use of tampons to an outbreak of a rare, sometimes fatal, toxic shock syndrome. One study of a group of sufferers discovered that 71 percent of them had used Procter & Gamble's Rely tampons. Procter 8c Gamble ordered a recall of its tampons and soon found itself in court.
Toxic Shock Syndrome.
Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a severe, systemic illness associated with infection by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. The CDC's findings indicated it occurred most commonly in menstruating women who used tampons — about 75 percent of TSS victims — although it also...
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