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Public Health Response May Have Prevented Hundreds of Illnesses, Deaths in Fungal Meningitis Outbreak - Media Advisory

April 30, 2015

Quick action by thousands of public health officials and clinicians may have averted more than 153 cases of meningitis or stroke and 124 deaths during the 2012-2013 fungal meningitis outbreak linked to methylprednisolone acetate (MPA) distributed by a compounding pharmacy in Massachusetts.

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