NSW Health urges community to only receive cosmetic injections from authorised practitioners

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A Sydney woman is in intensive care following a suspected case of botulism linked to an unregulated home anti-wrinkle injection.

The case prompted New South Wales Health to issue an alert urging the community to only receive cosmetic anti-wrinkle injections from authorised practitioners or risk “serious harm and … death”.