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CDC: Meningitis outbreak growing, 14 people dead
Federal health officials have tracked down 12,000 of the roughly 14,000 people who may have received contaminated steroid shots in the nation's ...
Meningitis outbreak toll: 170 cases, 14 deaths
An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has ...
Suit: Firm provided tainted meds in 2002, man died
Long before the current rash of fungal meningitis, the compounding pharmacy suspected in the outbreak settled a lawsuit alleging it produced a tainted ...
Meningitis outbreak toll: 137 cases, 12 deaths
An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has ...
Meningitis outbreak toll: 119 cases, 11 deaths
The number of people sickened by a deadly meningitis outbreak has now reached 119 cases, including 11 deaths. The Centers for Disease Control and ...
Mich. man at risk for meningitis after losing wife
Days after taking his wife off life support, George Cary got a phone call that confirmed his suspicions: Her meningitis-related death was linked to ...
13,000 got suspect steroid shots; risk uncertain
As many as 13,000 people received steroid shots suspected in a national meningitis outbreak, health officials said Monday. But it's not clear how many ...
Pharmacy linked to outbreak issues wide recall
The pharmacy that distributed a steroid linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis has issued a voluntary recall of all of its products, calling the ...
CDC: Meningitis outbreak death toll rises to 7
Health officials say the death toll in a rare fungal meningitis outbreak across several states has risen to seven. In updated figures posted to its ...
Waiting, worrying amid deadly meningitis outbreak
Patsy Bivins tossed and turned all night after finding out the steroid shot she received to ease her chronic back pain could instead threaten her life
Steroid-related meningitis cases rise to 47
As the tally from a deadly meningitis outbreak rose Friday, health officials identified the medical clinics across the country that received steroid ...
Fungi blamed for meningitis rarely cause trouble
The two kinds of fungus linked to a meningitis outbreak are found in plenty of places and rarely make people sick. People inhale one kind, ...
Problems found at peanut butter plant in 2010
The Food and Drug Administration found what it called "objectionable conditions" at a New Mexico peanut butter plant in 2010, two years before the ...
Intense pain, confusing diagnosis mark meningitis
A week after her annual steroid shot for back pain, Janet Russell began getting unbearable headaches. A fever followed. Doctors admitted her to the ...
Clinics rush to warn patients of tainted steroid
Health providers are scrambling to notify patients in nearly two dozen states that steroid shots they got for back pain may have been contaminated ...
Outbreak spotlights risks from custom-mixed drugs
Two people blinded in Washington, D.C., in 2005. Three dead in Virginia in 2006 and three more in Oregon the following year. Twenty-one dead polo ...
Some answers about meningitis outbreak
Federal and state health officials are investigating an outbreak of a rare and deadly form of meningitis. Some details: Q: How big is the outbreak? ...
FDA: Ind. farm tied to salmonella outbreak unclean
A federal inspector found two strains of salmonella and unclean conditions at an Indiana cantaloupe farm's fruit-packing plant during inspections ...
Smoked salmon blamed for salmonella outbreak
Smoked salmon tainted with salmonella has sickened hundreds of people in the Netherlands, authorities said, sparking major recalls there and in the U.
Superbug kills 7th person at Md. NIH hospital
A deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics has killed a seventh person at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland.
16 refugees killed by Hepatitis E in South Sudan
South Sudan says 16 people have been killed by an outbreak of Hepatitis E in three refugee camps near the border with Sudan. According to a statement ...
UN health agency says Ebola toll at 31 in Congo
The death toll from an outbreak of the Ebola virus in northeastern Congo has more than doubled to 31 over the past week, while 38 other people are ...
AP Exclusive: Private school vaccine opt-outs rise
Parents who send their children to private schools in California are much more likely to opt out of immunizations than their public school ...
NH attorney says med tech spread hepatitis in 2008
A New Hampshire attorney says a client contracted hepatitis C from a traveling hospital worker two years earlier than has been previously alleged he ...