updated 7:22 PM EDT, Tue October 9, 2012
(CNN) -- Florida recorded its first death connected to the
outbreak of a rare, noncontagious form of meningitis, raising the toll Tuesday
to a total of 12 fatalities nationwide.
Earlier in the day, federal
authorities reported 11 deaths and 119 persons becoming ill in the outbreak, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday. Those figures were
an increase from Monday's count of eight deaths and 105 illnesses.
Florida health officials also
reported a total of six cases connected to the outbreak -- all in Marion
County.
That figure -- one more than
federal officials have so far counted in Florida -- means that a total of 120
persons nationwide have become ill, according to state officials.
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