By: Irvin Jackson | Published: November 6th, 2012
An Indiana family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the compounding pharmacy linked to a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak, saying that the illness that claimed the life of Daniel Rohrer after he received an epidural steroid injection that was later recalled.
The complaint is the latest in a number of lawsuits filed over the fungal meningitis outbreak, which involves more than 400 confirmed infections in 19 states, including 30 deaths.
Rohrer’s family filed the meningitis wrongful death lawsuit last week in Elkhart County Court in Indiana, after that the 68 year old died on October 23. The death was allegedly caused by a tainted injection mixed by the New England Compounding Center (NECC), which has been named as the defendant in the family’s lawsuit.
NECC recalled more than 17,000 vials of methylprednisolone acetate epidural injections, which have been directly linked to the outbreak of fungal meningitis. The CDC estimates that about 14,000 people may have received potentially contaminated injections, and the FDA says it has also found fungus in other drugs distributed by the compounding pharmacy.
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