Fungal Meningitis: Day 4

We have more news on this outbreak.  It was distributed by a company called New England Compounding Center.  23 states are effected, and they have a license to sell to all 50.  2 people have died , and 6 are severely ill.  Meningitis is the inflammation of the spinal cord and the brain lining.  These people were getting infected by a fungal contaminant in the steroid being injected into the patients spinal cord.

Requires an update:

1.  Pertussis – “Whooping Cough”
2.  Fatal rash caused by staph infection
3.  “Flesh Eating Bacteria”, also a staph infection
4.  The Bubonic Plague
5.  Ebola
6.  Capnocytophaga – Woman lost hands and feet from dog saliva
7.  Untreatable Gonorrhea
8.  Kid died from a brain destroying ameoba, found in a lake
9.  West Nile Virus
10.  Hantavirus
11.  Rabies
12.  Typhus
13.  Legionnaires Disease
14.  New Jersey Superbug
15.  Popcorn Lung
16.  Saudi Arabian SARS
17.  Spinal Meningitis (Caused by fungus)