Pubdate: Sun, 18 Jun 2000
Source: Sunday Independent (Ireland)
Copyright: 2000 Independent Newspapers Ltd
Contact:  http://www.independent.ie/
Author: Geraldine Niland

'ROGUE' HEROIN DEALERS IDENTIFIED

Gardai have identified four dealers who supplied the contaminated heroin at 
the centre of a health scare which has resulted in eight deaths in Dublin. 
Sixteen addicts have contracted an unidentified infection, with one new 
case being confirmed late last week in the Dublin area.

Scientists in Glasgow announced last Thursday that they had identified the 
bacterium which they believe caused the infection, but the Eastern Regional 
Health Authority said that the particular strain of clostridium under 
examination in the Scottish analysis had not been isolated in the Irish cases.
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