You Might Want to Get That Checked Out ... Again

There was bad news in 2002 for anybody who had recently taken a gonorrhea test. (Well, more bad news.) Pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories Inc. recalled about 750,000 test kits believed to give false negative results. The FDA recommended that anyone who had tested negative over a period of nearly six months ask their doctor whether they should be tested a second time. The mishap carried serious potential health consequences: the disease can lead to sterility in women if left untreated. At least Abbott gave customers a refund.

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在2002年接受淋病檢測的每個人都得到了不好的消息（至少是大多數是壞消息）。制藥巨頭雅培公司召回了被認定產生錯誤結果的大約750000套檢測設備。藥監局建議在過去六個月被檢測出壞結果的人們應當向他們的醫生詢問是否要進行第二次檢查。這個小事故造成了嚴重的健康問題：如果不及時診斷疾病可能會導致不孕不育。至少雅培公司給予了消費者賠償。