Meningitis outbreak: Should anti-fungal medications be given to those at risk?

By Rachael Rettner

Published October 19, 2012

An outbreak of deadly fungal meningitis linked to steroid injections has raised the question of whether people who received the shots, but don't have meningitis symptoms, should take anti-fungal drugs to prevent disease.
For now, health officials are not recommending use of the drugs as a preventative treatment, but that advice could change as officials learn more about the outbreak, experts say.


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