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A would-be social media influencer from Long Island has been arrested for allegedly peddling tainted and misbranded weight loss drugs on TikTok that left at least one person with a serious infection.
However, after self-administering 28 injections, the woman began developing lesions and was later diagnosed with a mycobacterium abscessus infection, the complaint states. The New York Department of Health tested one of the vials of Mesofrance the victim had purchased and confirmed it was contaminated with a rapidly growing mycobacterium that's resistant to several drugs.
Prosecutors said the officer received a package from Reyes on about Jan. 12 containing what appeared to be Ozempic. But all of the labeling on the medication was in Spanish and in violation of FDA regulations.
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