Meningitis wave in the US survived?

Meningitis wave triggered by contaminated drugs in the US apparently survived

12/12/2012

The triggered by contaminated drugs meningitis in the US seems largely over. Almost daily, the number of affected patients had increased in October. Since then, however, the number of new infections reported has decreased significantly, with the result that the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) assume a gradual decline in the meningitis wave.

Muscular spore-contaminated steroid painkillers from Massachusetts-based NECC, according to the CDC, have caused meningitis in 590 patients in 19 US states over the past few months, costing 37 patients their lives. However, in view of the significant reduction in the number of new infections and taking into account the incubation period, it can be assumed that the wave of meningitis is now over. However, at the beginning of December, the CDC reported that microbiological contaminants were also detected in another drug from NECC. These products have also been withdrawn from the market, but potential health consequences for users can not yet be ruled out.

In the meningitis wave, the number of cases increased in individual states, as they had lost a large part of the contaminated drugs. In Tennessee alone, 13 were killed and 10 were killed in Michigan. Altogether, according to the experts, about 30,000 people received an injection of the contaminated analgesic into the spinal canal. The spores could spread further through the spinal fluid, causing a potentially life-threatening inflammation of the meninges in many patients. (Fp)

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