Thursday, October 18, 2012

What contaminated the steroid injections involved in US meningitis outbreak?


Was it some moldy ceiling tiles? The dusty shoes of a careless employee? Or did the contamination of steroid injections tied to a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak ride in on one of the ingredients?
There are lots of ways fungus could have gotten inside the Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose injections has been linked to the lethal outbreak that has sickened more than 230 people in 15 states, killing 15 people as of Oct. 16, 2012.
The Virginia Department of Health noted another death last night, potentially raising the total to 16.

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