A Moneta woman with fungal meningitis filed a lawsuit this week in Roanoke
Circuit Court, as the number of local legal cases continues to mount in the
deadly national outbreak blamed on tainted steroid injections.
Michelle Powell was sickened in the outbreak after being treated at Insight
Imaging in Roanoke with one or more
doses of the steroid injections made by
New England Compounding Center, according to the complaint filed Monday.
The suit, which names both the
compounding center and Insight, seeks $10 million.
Powell's suit marks the 12th filed locally since the outbreak was discovered
in October. All of the cases have named New England Compounding, the
Massachusetts pharmacy that produced the steroid shots. And most have also
sought to place blame on Insight, the Roanoke outpatient clinic that
administered the shots. Spokespeople for both companies have declined to comment
on the legal proceedings.
As of Monday, the outbreak has sickened 510 people in 19 states and is blamed
in 36 deaths, according to the latest count by Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in Atlanta. In Virginia, 51 cases and two deaths have been recorded
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