Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Warning Signs Of Meningitis To Watch For

Warning Signs Of Meningitis To Watch For, It can take more than 40 days for fungal meningitis symptoms to appear, doctors warn. There is a scary new twist in the national meningitis outbreak among patients who received a tainted steroid drug. As fungal meningitis deaths and cases rise across the US, the FDA has announced that two additional drugs could also be culprits in the outbreak.

About 14,000 people are thought to have been exposed to the contaminated steroid. So far, 15 have died and 214 have been stricken, mostly with fungal meningitis, the CDC reports, though some patients developed other fungal infections. The steroid was tainted with a fungus that causes a type of meningitis that can result in stroke.

Now, the FDA is investigating three additional cases of suspected fungal meningitis or other fungal infections in patients who received other injected drugs made by New England Compounding Center (NECC), ABC News reports. "The sterility of any injectable drugs ... produced by NECC are of significant concern," the FDA warned.

Share/Bookmark

No comments:

Post a Comment