TUESDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- The ongoing meningitis outbreak tied to tainted steroid injections has reached 490 cases, and another person has died, bringing the total fatalities to 34, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday[...]
5:59PM EST November 19. 2012 - WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee investigating the deadly outbreak of meningitis wants to know how regulators in all 50 states oversee specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered the illness.[...]
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami) – Another case of fungal meningitis stemming from a contaminated drug has been confirmed in Florida. The state’s Department of Health said Monday a 56-year old man who received treatment at the Florida Pain Clinic in Marion County is the latest case, bringing the Florida’s total to 24 cases of fungal meningitis, including three deaths.[...]
A 12th case of fungal meningitis has been reported in St. Paul, Minnesota that links back to a pharmacy located in Massachusetts[...]
Hearings are being held this Wednesday in Washington and Boston on the fungal meningitis outbreak. Legislators will look into the state's oversight of the New England Compounding Center in Framingham[...]
A 56-year-old man is the latest victim of the meningitis outbreak the Florida Department of Health has confirmed. The victim was receiving treatments at the Florida Pain Clinic in Marion County. This brings the overall amount of fungal meningitis cases to 24 in Florida, and 480 cases nationwide.
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