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MEDICAL: PHARMACY PHARMACEUTICAL PHARMACOLOGY: DRUG: GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT:
FDA Finds Fungus in Steroid Shots, Meningitis Toll Rises
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FDA Finds Fungus in Steroid Shots, Meningitis Toll Rises
By Bill Berkrot and Deena Beasley
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES
Thursday October 18, 2012 11:03pm EDT
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/19/
us-usa-health-meningitis-idUSBRE89H1DM20121019
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(Reuters) - U.S. health officials made their first confirmation of the
presence of a deadly fungus in one of three lots of steroids tied to a
national meningitis outbreak as the death toll rose to 20 on Thursday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it was still testing two
additional lots of methylprednisolone acetate, the steroid used to treat
back pain, for the presence of the rare Exserohilum fungus. It is also
testing other injectable drugs that were supplied by the New England
Compounding Center, or NECC, in Massachusetts.
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"Now we can definitively say that the injections are linked to the
infection," Dr. Tom Chiller, an epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, told Reuters in an interview. "To date,
CDC has no firm evidence of infection in any patients beyond those exposed
to the contaminated lots."
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THE CDC said the death toll climbed by one to 20, while nine new cases
brought the national total to 254, including the first in New York - the
16th state with confirmed infections.
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Michigan reported its fourth fungal meningitis death and new cases were
also reported in Indiana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio and Tennessee.
There are also three cases of peripheral infections in joints, the CDC
said.
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"There were a lot more spinal injections performed versus joint
injections, but the infection rate may also reflect the fact that joint
infections might be slower or the incubation period could be longer ... we
just don't know," Chiller said.
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