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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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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Massachusetts officials say their preliminary investigation has found problems with cleanliness and sterilization at a pharmacy linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak.
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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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Saturday, October 06, 2012
In updated figures posted to its website Saturday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the outbreak has spread to more than 60 people across nine states.
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Saturday, October 06, 2012
South Carolina health officials say one clinic in Mount Pleasant received a batch of drugs used for steroid shots that have been linked to a rare form of meningitis.
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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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Thursday, October 04, 2012
Health officials are expecting to find more cases of a rare and deadly form of meningitis that has sickened more than two dozen people in five states. Four have died.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Josh Gelinas, a spokesperson for the South Carolina Department of Corrections, says an inmate at Evans Correctional Institution in Bennettsville got sick Tuesday, and they thought he might have contracted spinal meningitis.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
A memorial is scheduled for a college student from New Jersey who died last month and had a form of meningitis.
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Friday, August 07, 2009
A Clemson University student from New Jersey who died last week had a form of meningitis.
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