Friday, September 13, 2013

Source: The Tennessean 'Life has been forever changed' by meningitis, suit says Sep. 13, 2013 6:49 PM


Written by
Walter F. Roche Jr.
The Tennessean

One of the local victims of the fungal meningitis outbreak spent more than two months in the hospital and “her life has been forever changed,” according to a federal lawsuit filed on her behalf.
The suit was filed Friday for Sondra Lemberg of Nashville in U.S. District Court and charges that she suffered multiple strokes after being injected with fungus-tainted spinal steroids at Saint ThomasOutpatient Neurosurgical Center.
Lemberg was one of two newly identified victims of the 2012 outbreak to emerge as a deadline approaches for filing legal claims in the outbreak that took the lives of 16 patients treated in Tennessee.
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