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US meningitis death toll rises to 28: official Twenty-eight people have died from fungal meningitis they contracted after using suspected tainted steroid injections blamed for a growing national outbreak.

01 November 2012

Cruise ship crew member dies of meningitis in Italy An Indonesian cruise ship crew member died of meningitis on Tuesday, nine days after being hospitalised with three colleagues in the western Italian port city of Livorno.

18 October 2012

Criminal investigators at US pharmacy linked to outbreak Criminal investigators from the US Food and Drug Administration searched a Massachusetts pharmacy Tuesday which made tainted drugs tied to a meningitis outbreak that has killed 15 people.

17 October 2012

US officials find new drugs tied to meningitis outbreak US health officials identified two new drugs Monday which may have infected patients with meningitis as they investigate a widening outbreak tied to tainted products from a Massachusetts pharmacy.

17 October 2012

US meningitis cases climb to 205 as outbreak worsens Fungal meningitis tied to a contaminated steroid has affected 205 people in a worsening outbreak of the infection that has killed 15 people in the United States.

16 October 2012

Contaminated drug linked to deadly US meningitis outbreak A contaminated drug has been linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis that has claimed the lives of at least five people and sickened 42 others in seven US states.

07 October 2012

US cases of West Nile virus soaring: CDC Infections and fatalities from West Nile virus have risen to new record levels in the United States in the first week of September.

06 September 2012