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News for the Carolinas
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
South Carolina health officials are reporting the first probable case of fungal meningitis related to the ongoing multistate investigation of steroid injections from a potentially contaminated product called methylprednisolone acetate, the state's Department of Health and Environmental Control reported Thursday.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Health officials say one of two North Carolina victims of the fungal meningitis outbreak has died, raising the nationwide death toll to 23.
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Monday, October 08, 2012
The pharmacy that distributed a steroid linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis has issued a voluntary recall of all of its products.
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Friday, October 05, 2012
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.
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