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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Anatomy of a Meningitis Outbreak | Redux

Anatomy of a Meningitis Outbreak

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The 42-day risk period for contracting fungal meningitis from tainted steroid injections ended on Wednesday (since the drugs were recalled on Sept. 26) but new case reports will probably continue to trickle into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for at least a few months, said the CDC's fungal disease expert Dr. Tom Chiller. (The Centers for Disease Control/AP Photo) The fungal meningitis outbreak that sickened 414 people this fall was unprecedented -- first, because only people who received a tainted steroid injection were at risk; and, second, because the fungus wasn't known for making people sick, let alone causing a deadly inflammatory disease that's killed 31 people so far. Health officials on the local, state and federal levels had to work together to trace the cause of the outbreak and get the word out to at-risk patients and their doctors.

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Friday, December 7, 2012

New warning of secondary infections in patients who received tainted steroids | Redux

New warning of secondary infections in patients who received tainted steroids

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While rates of new cases of fungal meningitis are diminishing considerably, doctors have a new warning for people who received injections of contaminated steroid medication produced by the New England Compounding Center. Public health officials are urging these patients to call their doctor if they develop new or worse back pain or experience any changes in bowel or bladder function. These could be signs of secondary fungal infections around the injection site. Doctors in Michigan and Tennessee -- the states hardest hit in the meningitis outbreak -- have noticed some patients have started developing fungal infections around the injection site in the lower back more than a month after receiving the tainted steroid.

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