What's New on the CDC Emergency Preparedness & Response Site

What's New on the CDC Emergency Preparedness & Response Site

CDC - Multistate Meningitis Outbreak - HAI

What's New on the CDC Emergency Preparedness & Response Site

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent this bulletin at 10/08/2012 11:04 AM EDT

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UPDATE: Multistate Meningitis Outbreak InvestigationCDC is coordinating a multistate investigation of meningitis among patients who received epidural steroid injections (medication injected into the spine). Several of these patients have had strokes related to the meningitis. In several patients, the meningitis was found to be caused by a fungus that is common in the environment but rarely causes meningitis. This form of meningitis is not contagious. The source of the fungus has not yet been identified, and the cause of infections in the other patients is still being assessed.
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CDC - Multistate Meningitis Outbreak - HAI