In the late summer of 2012, the event we now refer to as the fungal meningitis event was broadcast as a recall of medications made by New England Compounding Center (NECC) of Framingham, Massachusetts, US. As the event unfolded, we learned that some 14,000 persons had been impacted by the receipt of contaminated injections of a variety of types—epidurals (transforaminal, intralaminar, and caudal) into the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine; joint injections; and trigger point injections. Thanks to the work of an alert infectious disease clinician, April Petty, and the Tennessee Department of Health, this event was called relatively early, but not before many people were negatively impacted and not before serious adverse events had already begun to unfold as unrecognized deaths associated with contaminated medications.
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