Showing posts with label meningitis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meningitis. Show all posts

October 05, 2012

Deadly "meningitis" outbreak puts spotlight on custom-mixed drugs from ‘compounding pharmacies’4 0CTOBER 2012


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 horses in Florida in 2009. Earlier this year, 33 people in seven states with fungal eye infections.
And now, at least five people dead and 35 sickened with fungal meningitis that has been linked to steroid shots for back pain.