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MEDICAL: HOSPITAL: CARE:
Michigan Hospital Blazes Trail in Fight against Fungal Meningitis
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Michigan Hospital Blazes Trail in Fight against Fungal Meningitis
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO
Sunday December 30, 2012 7:04am EST
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/30/
us-usa-meningitis-michigan-idUSBRE8BT03X20121230
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So far, 620 Americans have developed serious infections related to the
outbreak, including 367 cases of deadly meningitis, and 39 people have
died. Of the 19 U.S. states affected, Michigan has been worst hit,
handling more than one third of the total cases in the outbreak.
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St Joseph Mercy - a 537-bed Catholic hospital located in Ypsilanti, on the
doorstep of the University of Michigan - has treated 169 of the state's
223 cases of infections that can cause meningitis, including 7 people who
died.
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At one point it was so overrun that 87 of its 537 beds, which are usually
occupied by patients with cancer or heart ailments and the like, were
occupied by patients with fungal meningitis and related infections.
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Dr Tom Chiller, the fungal disease expert at the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, who has been overseeing the outbreak, praised the
work of the hospital in helping to limit deaths from the outbreak.
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"They have been incredibly creative in dealing with these complicated
patients," he said.
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In all, almost 14,000 people seeking relief from back and joint pain
received injections from moldy steroid shots made at the now-bankrupt New
England Compounding Center in Massachusetts before they were recalled in
late September.
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CDC experts initially feared death rates in the 40 to 50 percent range;
instead, only about 6 percent of those infected have died, and the CDC
credits the creative and dogged efforts of state and local health
officials for keeping the death rates so low.
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The first wave of the outbreak involved the most severe cases of
meningitis - an inflammation of the membranes that cover the brain and
spinal cord. But starting in mid-October, patients who had been recovering
from meningitis were developing potentially fatal localized infections
near the site where contaminated drug was injected to treat back or neck
pain.
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As they started seeing more cases of these local, secondary infections,
the staff at St Joseph's devised a bold plan to screen all patients in
their database looking for potential new infections that might have been
missed in the first wave.
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