Tag Archive for PRO/EDR> Fungal infection, contaminated drug – USA: 2012-2014, follow up

PRO/EDR> Fungal infection, contaminated drug – USA: 2012-2014, follow up

Other Human Disease -- United StatesDuring September 2012, CDC, in collaboration with state and local health departments and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), investigated a multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis and other infections caused by injections of contaminated methylprednisolone acetate solution (MPA) (1). After this unprecedented outbreak, scientists in the CDC Mycotic Diseases Branch, along with infectious diseases specialists who cared for patients from the outbreak, clinical Read more [...]