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Daily News 2012-10-23: NEW YORK
(Reuters) - At least 13 times, the Massachusetts pharmacy
linked to a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak shipped orders of injectable
steroid before it obtained results from sterility testing, Massachusetts health
officials announced on Tuesday. Twenty-three people have died and more than 300 have become
ill with fungal meningitis linked to steroid shots from the New
England Compounding Center in Framingham,
Massachusetts. A top medical expert says the outbreak is not over and there
will be more cases in the coming weeks. In at least one case, NECC shipped
methylprednisolone acetate, the steroid linked to... more
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