8:12 PM, Nov 6, 2012
A combination of gender, age and frequency put some people at greater risk of developing fungal meningitis after they were treated with potentially moldy medicine, state health officials said in a paper published Tuesday.
Those at greatest risk included women at least 60 years old, those who received multiple epidural injections, and those treated with vials of medicine more than 50 days old from one lot of recalled steroids, Tennessee health officials said.
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