A 24-year-old Montgomery County man had to be evacuated from his military post overseas after being stricken with fungal meningitis from a spinal steroid treatment he had undergone in Nashville.
Those and other details about Joshua Kirkwood are spelled out in a 56-page complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court in Nashville. He becomes the third Tennessee victim of a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak to be identified for the first time this week.
“By the time Joshua Kirkwood was able to see an Army physician, his speech was slurred,” the complaint states.
Attorneys for Kirkwood declined to specify where he was stationed when he became ill, but the complaint says he was first evacuated to a military hospital in Germany and after four days of treatment airlifted to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland.
He also underwent treatment at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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