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Two More Steroid Related Deaths Reported in Livingston County

A 65-year-old woman and 75-year-old man are the latest Livingston County residents to die after receiving shots of tainted steroids.

Two more Livingston County residents have died following shots of tainted steroids, according to WHMI.

An article on the WHMI site states that a 65-year-old woman and 75-year-old man are the latest in a string of deaths related to the use of tainted steroids at clinics across the country. The steroids were tainted with fungal meningitis.

The article states that twenty-two Michigan residents have died since 2012 from the outbreak, and there have been more than 260 cases of meningitis reported in connection to the steroids in the state.

In October, State Health officials reported that a Brighton facility was one of four Michigan facilities that received shipments of steroid medication suspected of causing a fungal meningitis outbreak from the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Massachusetts.

Michigan Pain Specialists in Brighton, as well as Michigan Neurosurgical Institutes in Grand Blanc, Neuromuscular and Rehabilitation in Traverse City and Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital in Warren, have all been working with health officials to identify and notify patients who may have received the medication through epidural injection between July and October of 2012.

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