Thousands of Americans in 23 states at risk of deadly meningitis - 5 Dead so far from laced steroid injections

Medication linked to deadly meningitis outbreak may have reached 23 states, CDC says

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Problem is, whoever has been injected with that tainted medicine will have aspergillus in their nervous system, for the rest of their lives.

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Check the website. The recall has spread to IV solutions, lidocaine, and many other substances. Who knows how many thousands of people might die from this. This is real doom.

Agenda 21 - multiple bio attacks

New SARs
Ebola
West Nile
etc

Each takes a bite but not a massive panademic

Public concerned but no panic / hysteria

Maintain relatively low kill rate so that no massive campaign launched to develop vaccines.

FDA Statement on Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

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Much thanks for pin!!

Forty-seven people in seven states are now confirmed to have fungal meningitis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday, 12 more than the day before.

The death toll hasn't risen. So far, five people have died after having a preservative-free steroid called methylprednisolone acetate contaminated by a fungus injected into their spine. Michigan, the latest state to find patients sickened by the drug is reporting four cases.

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Hey, Dorrbert! I asked on the other thread, but no one answered. I'm hoping you might know. Has anyone come down with this meningitis with out getting the injections? Has it spread to the public, yet? I haven't been able to find anything. Thanks.

Sort of a good lesson in NOT LETTING SHARPENED STEEL DELIVER DRUGS INTO YOUR BLOODSTREAM, eh?

posted 50 times already but doorbut gets pinned again

I have not heard - I'll search and let you know

Thanks. You're alot better finding things than I am, but I've checked everything I can find and , nothing. I'm just wondering how far it's spread, if it has.

BTW...sorry about the double r!LOL The sun went down and I'm typing in the semi dark.

Fungal meningitis is actually rare and no vaccine.

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Only for those stupid enough to use the injections.

Health experts are bracing for more people to become sick with fungal meningitis in the coming days. Worse is that doctors are dealing with an incredibly rare illness that is complicated to treat.

What makes it tricky is doctors still don't know exactly with what they're dealing. Experts have identified one fungus at work in this deadly meningitis outbreak, but the health department said Friday it is likely there is more than one type of fungus involved.

That could make the treatment for patients even more complicated.

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Thanks! I've been exposed to other types of meningitis over the years that were contagious. It seems that this one isn't. I appreciate you checking, I get lost on the CDC's site, too many places to go!LOL

Fungal meningitis is not contagious... no doom here. move along. move along.

A vaccine will fix this!

Yeah, I listen to the news.

if i am not mistaken, and i might be, but isn't spinal meningitis contagious?

when i did my basic at ft leonard wood, a guy across from me died from spinal meningitis.

Federal health officials have expanded the recall list of potentially contaminated injectable medications suspected in a multi-state meningitis outbreak and the death of five people. More and more cases are being reported, with 47 people having contracted meningitis in seven states.

The Food and Drug Administration released a list of 34 different drugs this morning that included steroids, epidural anesthetics used to block pain during childbirth, and surgery and saline solutions that are compounded to make different medications. All of the products on the recall list were made by the New England Compound Center (NECC) in Framingham, Mass., and are administered by injection into the spine. ..

..The Centers for Disease Control and FDA have asked the clinics, doctors offices and hospitals in 23 states that have received shipments of medications from NECC to stop using them immediately. Anyone who has received epidural injections since July 1 should watch for symptoms of meningitis. Health officials say the most common symptoms are worsening headache, fever, stiff neck, trouble walking or falling and progressing back pain. Many of these patients have suffered strokes.
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List of Recalled Products Related to Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

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Nothing to do with the costume of treating recruits as pin cushions.

The number of people stricken with a rare form of meningitis linked to steroid injections rose to 50 in seven U.S. states, authorities said on Friday, in a widening outbreak that has killed at least five people.

Michigan said it had confirmed six cases of fungal meningitis, the seventh state to report people falling ill after receiving the injections, mainly for back pain.

Other states with cases are Tennessee, Virginia, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina and Indiana.
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looks like they are going after compounding pharmacies with this one.

ATLANTA -- No infections have been reported here yet, but 189 Georgia patients received steroid injections in Macon that may have been contaminated with a deadly fungal meningitis.

Thursday, it became apparent that hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of people who got the affected shots between July and September could be at risk.

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Yikes...I used to get injections into the lumbar spinal area for back pain. Valium pre-procedure, sterile conditions at the university pain clinic, etc.... they never helped one bit.

Hahahahahahah! Something tells me any crap you slop on the glp will get pinned.

The potential scope of the meningitis outbreak that has killed at least five people widened Thursday as health officials warned that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients who got steroid back injections in 23 states could be at risk.

By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun
8:15 p.m. EDT, October 5, 2012

Maryland could see new cases of meningitis for a month or more as health officials continue to search for new and past cases of the disease, which has sickened 50 people in several states who received injections of a tainted steroid.

In the cases health officials are already aware of, the incubation period for the infections has been between two days and four weeks, but it's possible the period could be even longer for some, said Dr. Lucy Wilson, chief of Maryland's infection prevention and outbreak response program. Health officials are basing their estimate on the existing cases, but it could change, Wilson said. [link to www.baltimoresun.com]

Some types of meningitis are contagious and very serious--like the ones that spread in barracks. This fungus is present in every refrigerator more than a few years old, and occasionally causes lung or skin diseases--usually amongst the immune suppressed folks. Fungal meningitis is definitely NOT contagious.