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Death Toll From Meningitis Outbreak Now Stands at 7, CDC Says

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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...

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