Death Toll From Meningitis Outbreak Now Stands at 7, CDC Says
Health officials in 23 states are trying to track down patients who received steroid injections for routine back pain that may have been contaminated with a deadly type of fungus-related meningitis linked to seven deaths and at least 64 cases of illness in nine states.
All of the patients were injected with methylprednisolone acetate, a steroid drug that investigators suspect was contaminated...