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Attack rate in fungal meningitis outbreak estimated at 4.4%

(CIDRAP News) – Researchers estimate from preliminary data that 4.4% of patients who were exposed to contaminated steroid drugs from a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy contracted fungal meningitis or other fungal infections, according to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: More fungal infections, thimerosal in vaccines, malaria efforts tapering

Dec 17, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: E coli salad outbreak ends, USDA's 'test and hold' rule, more meningitis cases, infectious-disease advances

Dec 11, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Ag antibiotics lawsuit, approving new antibiotics, compounding pharmacy legislation, mumps on campus

Dec 6, 2012

 

CDC sounds warning on more tainted NECC drugs

(CIDRAP News) – Further testing on three more products from New England Compounding Center (NECC) has turned up extensive contamination in three more products, and federal officials are asking healthcare workers to be alert for more infections, though they stopped short of calling the situation an outbreak.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 research-funding rules, more steroid fungal infections, Salmonella outbreak winds down, food irradiation

Dec 3, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Tamiflu benefits, pertussis surge in UK, change in meningitis reporting, Uganda Ebola update, persistent hospital bug

 

NEWS SCAN: Endangered public health funding, MRSA in kids, Tdap safety in seniors, Haiti cholera plan, injection infection prevention

Nov 29, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Ricotta Listeria outbreak over, fungal meningitis toll grows, yellow fever in Sudan

Nov 26, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Fungal meningitis, E coli and cardiac events, daycare reptile rules, BSE agent in saliva, H5N1 in Bangladesh, new US malaria center

Nov 20, 2012

 

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