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The CDC says two more people have died, bringing the death total to 23. There are now 285 cases in 16 states. Of these cases, 284 cases are “peripheral joint infections,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One of the new deaths occurred in Tennessee and North Carolina had its first death related to the meningitis outbreak. New cases occurred in Indiana (2) New Hampshire (2), New Jersey (3), Tennessee (3) and Virginia (3). Tennessee’s death toll has risen to 9, and state Department of Health officials reported 69 total cases across the state as of Saturday afternoon.
The 76 clinics in 23 states that received methylprednisolone acetate from the three lots recalled by the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, have been instructed to notify all affected patients. The CDC said the “potentially contaminated injections were given starting May 21.”
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