13,000 people may have been exposed to fungal meningitis

By SYDNEY LUPKIN and KATIE MOISSE (@katiemoisse)
Oct. 8, 2012
Health officials estimate that 13,000 people may have been exposed to contaminated lots of an epidural steroid that has been linked to a rare fungal meningitis that has infected 105 people across nine states, killing eight of them. Fourteen new cases and one new death have been reported since yesterday.

Although the number of cases has increased, the outbreak does not include any new states. The number of people with fungal meningitis, which is not spread person-to-person, has grown by 64 percent since Friday....
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/fungal-meningitis-outbreak-reaches-105-cases-deaths/story?id=17424832#.UHMlbE3peek