A further three patients have died from a rare form of meningitis linked to contaminated steroid shots prepared by a Massachusetts pharmacy now the subject of a criminal investigation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Wednesday that a total of 19 deaths were now known to have occurred, with 247 cases of fungal meningitis identified across 15 states.
It comes a day after federal agents from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raided the New England Compounding Center (NECC), a pharmacy compounder in the Boston suburb of Framingham, as part of a widening investigation into the outbreak.
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