The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers that it is very important to keep all carrot juice (including pasteurized) refrigerated at all times. This warning comes on the heels of three cases of botulism in Georgia believed to be due to the product not being properly refrigerated.

The health officials in Georgia, along with the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are closely monitoring and investigating the situation

On Wednesday, a federal judge imposes the maximum sentence of three years for a doctor who injected himself and three others with a potentially deadly botulism toxin instead of Botox.

U.S. District Judge James Cohn says Dr. Bach McComb caused unnecessary harm to others. One of the victims Eric Kaplan, 53, testified he considered McComb a Dr. Frankenstein because he seemed to be using experimental substances on his patients without their prior consent

A former Broward County doctor who injected four people with fake Botox is slated for sentencing today in Fort Lauderdale federal court. Bach McComb, who did not have a medical license at the time, is charged with paralyzing himself and three friends with fake anti-wrinkle shots.

In court earlier this month, still partially paralyzed and using a walker, McComb plead guilty to providing unapproved drugs and faces up to three years in federal prison

A survey of 19 public health clinics describes a wide variety of response times and medical advice given its researchers, who posed as doctors in telephone calls to clinics across the country in a test that stretched over nine months.

One health clinic officer told a caller describing botulism symptoms to go back to bed. Another told a caller describing signs of bubonic plague not to worry. And not one of the public health clinic surveyed by the RAND Corporation suggested isolating a patient whose face, arms and legs were said to be covered with pustules or other smallpox symptoms, reports The Associated Press