CDC: Tainted methylprednisolone could have reached 13,000 Americans
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
US health officials on 8 October said as many as 13,000 people in the US may have been exposed to contaminated methylprednisolone acetate and could develop fungal meningitis, which has proved to be deadly – killing as many as eight Americans, with 105 cases of the infection reported so far.