Showing posts with label Meningitis victim's death. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Meningitis victim's death, attributed to outbreak at Framingham pharmacy, may not be recorded

By The Associated Press 
on September 03, 2013 at 10:48 AM, updated September 03, 2013 at 10:55 AM


NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -€” One of the Tennessee victims of last year's fungal meningitis outbreak may not have been recorded among the official death records.
The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/1fwsJkS) federal court filings show Gokulbhai Patel of Goodlettsville died Jan. 13. He had received spinal injections at the Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgical Center in Nashville. But records from the outbreak kept by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show no deaths in January.
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