Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Reaches Georgia
So far 308 cases have now been reported and 23 people have died; Georgia is the 17th state to be affected.
Georgia is now the 17th state impacted by the fungal meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroid injections, according to the CDC. According to ABCNews.com, around 14,000 patients are thought to have received injections of the steroid. The Forsyth Street Ambulatory Surgery Center in Macon is the only clinic in Georgia to have received a shipment. The AJC reports that the person infected is a 66-year-old Macon woman. She is in stable condition. “Clinically she doesn’t appear to be that sick,” said Dr. Patrick O’Neal, the agency’s director of health protection told the AJC, “but we feel an abundance of caution is needed.” The current meningitis outbreak has been traced to a specific product and company. According to the CDC, the people …
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