Meningitis toll now 11 dead, 119 sick: CDC
Eleven people have now died and 119 have been sickened in the national meningitis outbreak apparently linked to contaminated steroid injections, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday.
All of the patients were thought to be injected with methylprednisolone acetate, a steroid drug commonly used for back pain that investigators suspect was tainted with a fungus usually found in leaf mold, according...