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| Meningitis Monster in US: Death Toll Now 8, Could be Even More Disastrous |
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; eight people
have died, with another fatality reported in Tennessee, since the
outbreak of fungal meningitis in nine U.S. states including Tennessee,
Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia, Maryland,
Minnesota and Ohio.
The patients contracted the deadly fungal
meningitis after being injected in their spines with a preservative-free
steroid called methylprednisolone acetate that was contaminated by a
fungus. The steroid is used to treat pain and inflammation.
The
latest death in the most affected state of Tennessee is the fourth in
this state and 35 other cases have also been registered here while the
total number of infected patients are more than 105. Alarmingly, the
number of people with noncontagious form of fungal meningitis has grown
by 64 percent since Friday.
US health officials on Monday said
that 13,000 patients in 23 states, including Connecticut, Rhode Island,
and New Hampshire, have been injected with a potentially tainted steroid
treatment, during May 21 and September 24, made by a Framingham
pharmacy and linked to a national outbreak of meningitis, according to
figures provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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