Oct 25, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – Massachusetts officials yesterday said New England Compounding Center (NECC), the firm linked to a multistate fungal meningitis outbreak, sent shipments from two of the recalled lots before it received sterility testing results.
(CIDRAP News) – Eleven more cases were reported in a multistate fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroid injections, including the first patient from Georgia, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today.
Oct 22, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – A medical team from Tennessee today described the diagnosis and medical care of the first patient sickened in the ongoing fungal meningitis outbreak, the case that triggered an investigation by the state's public health officials and led to the uncovering of the problem.
(CIDRAP News) – Fourteen more cases and four more deaths were reported today in a multistate fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroids provided by a Massachusetts pharmacy, which was raided yesterday by federal agents.
(CIDRAP News) – Nineteen more patients have been sickened in a fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroid injections, and a federal official today urged clinicians to contact patients who received other drugs made by the company involved, in view of worrisome investigative findings.
Oct 12, 2012
– Federal officials today announced that testing in the multistate meningitis outbreak has found fungus in 50 unopened vials of the steroid linked to the outbreak and that Michigan officials reported the first joint infection in a patient who received the recalled drug.