(Reuters) - Two other drugs made by the Massachusetts pharmacy at the
center of a deadly meningitis outbreak may be linked to the disease,
U.S. health regulators said on Monday, potentially widening the scope of
the health crisis.
The Food and Drug Administration said it was
looking into reports of a patient with possible meningitis who received
an injection of a different steroid than the one found to have caused 15
deaths. It also said two transplant patients were infected with the
rare fungus linked to the meningitis outbreak after receiving a heart
drug also made by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) of
Framingham, Massachusetts.
Nine more people have been diagnosed
with fungal meningitis linked to possibly tainted vials of the injected
steroid methylprednisolone, bringing the number of cases to 212,
according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A
Tennessee woman among these cases filed a lawsuit on Monday against
NECC seeking $15 million in damages.
Read more here: http://www.reuters.com
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Friday, October 19, 2012
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