11/12/2012 3:22 PM
None of the fungal meningitis cases involving tainted steroids from New England Compounding have taken longer than six weeks, from the time of injection, to diagnose. So, state and federal officials might have breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday, which marked six weeks from the day drugs produced at the Framingham pharmacy were recalled and public health officials began collecting products leftover in physician’s offices.
But they didn’t. Fungal meningitis cases like those resulting from the steroid -- as of Friday there were at least 428, including 32 deaths -- are rare, and public health officials are learning as they go.
“We don’t know the ultimate incubation period so anyone that received an injection should continue to be vigilant,” Curtis Allen, spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said last week. “The risk is less now that we’re six weeks out, but it’s not zero. And we don’t know the risk going forward.”
It could be months before the risk of infection is truly gone, Allen said.
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None of the fungal meningitis cases involving tainted steroids from New England Compounding have taken longer than six weeks, from the time of injection, to diagnose. So, state and federal officials might have breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday, which marked six weeks from the day drugs produced at the Framingham pharmacy were recalled and public health officials began collecting products leftover in physician’s offices.
But they didn’t. Fungal meningitis cases like those resulting from the steroid -- as of Friday there were at least 428, including 32 deaths -- are rare, and public health officials are learning as they go.
“We don’t know the ultimate incubation period so anyone that received an injection should continue to be vigilant,” Curtis Allen, spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said last week. “The risk is less now that we’re six weeks out, but it’s not zero. And we don’t know the risk going forward.”
It could be months before the risk of infection is truly gone, Allen said.
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