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(Reuters) – The deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis tied to tainted steroid medications from a Massachusetts company expanded to 18 states on Thursday with South Carolina reporting its first probable case of the disease.
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Meningitis outbreak spreads to 18 states with South Carolina case
A Minnesota woman who may have received tainted steroid injections blamed for the nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis sued the drug seller on Thursday, though she hasn't been diagnosed with the rare illness.
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Minn. lawsuit may be 1st from meningitis outbreak
Federal health officials have tracked down 12,000 of the roughly 14,000 people who may have received contaminated steroid shots in the nation's growing meningitis outbreak, warning Thursday that patients will need to keep watch for symptoms of the deadly infection for months.
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CDC: Meningitis outbreak growing, 14 people dead
Another fatality from a growing outbreak of a rare form of meningitis was reported Thursday, raising the death toll to five people, officials said.
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Rare US meningitis outbreak grows, 5 dead
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators on Thursday approved a new children's vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline PLC that targets two common causes of bacterial meningitis, which can be fatal
Glynn, of Wyoming, died Thursday at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing. Health officials were investigating the possibility of meningococcal disease, the forerunner to bacterial meningitis.
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Tests on 19-year-old MSU student who died last week negative for meningitis
HESPERIA • A Hesperia High School teacher was hospitalized Thursday when he came down with symptoms of a less-contagious form of meningitis. The teacher’s classroom was disinfected, officials said, and school is continuing today as scheduled….
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Hesperia High School teacher contracts meningitis
HESPERIA A Hesperia High School teacher was hospitalized Thursday when he came down with symptoms of a less-contagious form of meningitis.The teacher's classroom was disinfected, officials said, and school is continuing today as scheduled.”We're safe, we're on top of it,…
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Good news for residents in Dallas County. On Thursday, Dallas County Health and Human Services announced that they received another shipment of the meningitis vaccine. Last week DCHHS had run out of
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DCHHS Gets New Shipment Of Meningitis Vaccine
BEDFORD – Town Manager Russell Marcoux, a Nashua native remembered for his years as alderman and with the Nashua Jaycees, died Thursday evening at Massachusetts General Hospital after being hospitalized with bacterial meningitis, Town Council Chairman Bill Dermody said. “The town has lost a very capable and pleasant town manager,” Dermody said. “We’re very disappointed, but it’s premature to say …
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Bedford town manager dies of bacterial meningitis
