Tag: fungal meningitis

• Tuesday, October 16th 2012 - 07:23 UTC

  Fungal meningitis from contaminated steroid injections keeps expanding in the US

  

  Fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroid injections expanded in the United States to 15 states as Pennsylvania reported its first case of the disease that has killed 15 people nationwide.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 08:40 UTC

  US outbreak of fungal meningitis triggers debate on pharmaceutical compounding

  

  A rare US outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to steroid injections has claimed four more lives with Florida the latest state to report at least one death linked to the illness in a widening health scare, authorities said on Tuesday.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 20:37 UTC

  Steroid injection spreading rare form of fungal meningitis infection in the US

  

  The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration are quickly moving to determine the source of the fungal infection causing a rare form of meningitis that has killed seven people in nine states in the last few weeks, as the producer of the steroid injection apparently carrying the infection recalled all of its products.