William Wertz wonders whether the fungus will attack his body again — and what it would feel like to die.
“If I have fungal meningitis, how would my body shut down?” said the 68-year-old Howell man. “(Would I be) in a lot of pain, or would I go to sleep? Would I be like a dementia patient?
“They told me there’s no guarantee that it’s not going to be back.”
Wertz is among the hundreds of patients devastated by a deadly national fungal meningitis outbreak that exploded last fall and was caused by steroid injections that came tainted with fungus from a Massachusettspharmacy .
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