The disease is fungal meningitis caused by fungal-contaminated steroid injections. While it is not new per se, it was newly found to be health-care-related because the disease is linked to a treatment known as epidural steroid injections, a treatment designed to reduce pain and inflammation in a person's back Compounded Epidural Steroid Injections and Meningitis Outbreak An outbreak of fungal meningitis associated with epidural steroid injections prepared and distributed by New England Compounding Center, Inc (NECC), in Framingham, Massachusetts has resulted in 35 cases reported within 6 states, out of which 5 deaths have ensued 10/17/ · Experts speculate on how state meningitis outbreak was caused by a company's steroid injectionsEstimated Reading Time: 7 mins

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