The FDA and the CDC are studying the deaths of four California women who had taken the controversial "morning after" pill RU-486. All four had died from a lethal bacteria infection known as Clostridium sordellii, and researchers want to find out if the drug makes women more susceptible to the infection. This new line of inquiry follows a quiet test of the drugs to see if the state's supply of RU-486 had been contaminated. It was not.
- see this article from The New York Times