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Friday, October 05, 2012
Scramble To Notify Of Meningitis In Steroid Shots Health providers are scrambling to notify patients in nearly two dozen states that the routine steroid injections they received for back pain in recent months may have been contaminated with a deadly fungal meningitis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that so far, 35 people in six states, including Tennessee, have contracted fungal meningitis and five of them have died.
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