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New worry for fungal meningitis patients: relapse
By JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer, NBC News
The more than 740 patients who developed fungal meningitis and other infections after receiving tainted back pain shots may have yet another worry: relapses of illness despite months of powerful treatment.
Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say an 80-year-old man who developed fungal meningitis at the start of the nationwide outbreak last fall thought he was in the clear in February after more than four months of antifungal drugs.
But within weeks of stopping the therapy, the patient was back in the emergency room with headache and neck pain and sky-high signs of fungal infection, according to a report Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine...
New worry for fungal meningitis patients: relapse
By JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer, NBC News
The more than 740 patients who developed fungal meningitis and other infections after receiving tainted back pain shots may have yet another worry: relapses of illness despite months of powerful treatment.
Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say an 80-year-old man who developed fungal meningitis at the start of the nationwide outbreak last fall thought he was in the clear in February after more than four months of antifungal drugs.
But within weeks of stopping the therapy, the patient was back in the emergency room with headache and neck pain and sky-high signs of fungal infection, according to a report Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine...