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Monday, October 15, 2012

More drugs implicated in fungal meningitis poisonings

I am tired of hearing this shit described as an outbreak. It is really accidental drug poisoning. It is not an outbreak of anything, it is a huge poisoning of drugs do to ineptness and rampant unregulation of pharmaceutical companies. I am really having serious doubts about flu vaccines..

More drugs implicated in fungal meningitis outbreak
By Maggie Fox, NBC News
Two more drugs have been implicated in the ongoing outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to contaminated pain injections, federal health officials said Monday.

Both come from the same pharmacy, New England Compounding Center, that distributed the steroids suspected of sickening at least 205 people and killing 15 of them, the Food and Drug Administration said in a statement. 
One is a steroid called triamcinolone acetonide and another is a product used during heart surgery. While the FDA hasn’t confirmed that the two products are to blame, it’s issued a warning...

..“In addition, two transplant patients with Aspergillus fumigatus infection who were administered NECC cardioplegic solution during surgery have been reported,” the FDA added...

[link to vitals.nbcnews.com