The Indiana State Dept. of Health has not updated their website since Oct. 4th, so this information is from Indiana media only.
"CDC: Meningitis death traced to Indiana"
"One person has died of meningitis after receiving an injection at an Indiana clinic that contained a contaminated steroid.
Another 21 people in Indiana have become ill with the fungal form of meningitis after receiving epidural shots to alleviate chronic back pain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
...In Indiana six clinics are known to have received the suspect medication, none of them in Indianapolis. The clinics involved here are the St. Mary?s Surgicare Cross Pointe in Evansville; Ft. Wayne Physical Medicine in Ft. Wayne; OSMC Outpatient Surgery Center in Elkhart; South Bend Clinic in South Bend; Union Hospital in Terre Haute; and Wellspring in Columbus.
Franciscan St. Francis Health and Indiana University Health have issued statements saying that they did not dispense any of the problem steroids.
...State health officials say that 1,568 people underwent shots with the potentially contaminated materials at the six sites that did have the materials.
The deceased person lived out of state but under the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, his or her death falls under Indiana, not the state of residence, state health officials said.
They declined to provide any further information about the individual."
"CDC: Meningitis death traced to Indiana"
"One person has died of meningitis after receiving an injection at an Indiana clinic that contained a contaminated steroid.
Another 21 people in Indiana have become ill with the fungal form of meningitis after receiving epidural shots to alleviate chronic back pain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
...In Indiana six clinics are known to have received the suspect medication, none of them in Indianapolis. The clinics involved here are the St. Mary?s Surgicare Cross Pointe in Evansville; Ft. Wayne Physical Medicine in Ft. Wayne; OSMC Outpatient Surgery Center in Elkhart; South Bend Clinic in South Bend; Union Hospital in Terre Haute; and Wellspring in Columbus.
Franciscan St. Francis Health and Indiana University Health have issued statements saying that they did not dispense any of the problem steroids.
...State health officials say that 1,568 people underwent shots with the potentially contaminated materials at the six sites that did have the materials.
The deceased person lived out of state but under the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, his or her death falls under Indiana, not the state of residence, state health officials said.
They declined to provide any further information about the individual."
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