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In meningitis outbreak, fear lingers for patients with few answers
Despite slowing infection rates, risks remain for those exposed to tainted steroid injections
By Scott Dance, The Baltimore Sun
4:40 p.m. EST, January 6, 2013
A national outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to a tainted steroid killed two Marylanders. Nearly two dozen people living with the disease and hundreds of others who may have been exposed fear they may be next.
Sheila Smelkinson began suffering in July from pain in her lower back and right leg that kept the Pikesville resident awake for all but a few hours each night. Cortisone shots, one in August and a second in September, relieved her discomfort ? until she received a call informing her the medication was among batches contaminated with fungus in a Massachusetts pharmaceutical facility...
In meningitis outbreak, fear lingers for patients with few answers
Despite slowing infection rates, risks remain for those exposed to tainted steroid injections
By Scott Dance, The Baltimore Sun
4:40 p.m. EST, January 6, 2013
A national outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to a tainted steroid killed two Marylanders. Nearly two dozen people living with the disease and hundreds of others who may have been exposed fear they may be next.
Sheila Smelkinson began suffering in July from pain in her lower back and right leg that kept the Pikesville resident awake for all but a few hours each night. Cortisone shots, one in August and a second in September, relieved her discomfort ? until she received a call informing her the medication was among batches contaminated with fungus in a Massachusetts pharmaceutical facility...