Name: 米国でまれな真菌性髄膜炎が発生（VOA特別英語） 2012年11月18日 (Rare Fungal Meningitis Outbreak in the US (VOA Special English) Nov. 18, 2012)
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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English.

who recently received steroid injections for back pain.

Thousands of patients may be at risk of developing a rare form of fungal

Health officials reported Monday that fifteen people

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said

The majority of the cases were in three states: Tennessee, Michigan and Virginia.

Meningitis infects membranes that protect the brain and the spinal cord.

Fungal meningitis is the rarest form of the disease.

Other forms can result from bacteria, a virus or a parasite.

Last Thursday, officials reported that tests

ound evidence of the suspect fungus in more than fifty vials of the steroid.

They said all those vials were manufactured by the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts.

The company has suspended operations and recalled

Compounding or specialty pharmacies often custom-mix medicines

at levels, and in forms, that may not be available from other manufacturers.

Under Massachusetts law, compounding pharmacies are only permitted to make

small amounts of made-to-order prescription drugs.

The patients who developed meningitis were being treated for back pain.

others who received the injections in others who received the injections in their joints

John Jernigan of the CDC is investigating the meningitis outbreak.

CDC is working with state and local health departments

to contact patients who may have received injections at the facilities who

received the recalled lots of this medication

to inform (them) that they, that they may have been exposed, to find out

and to instruct them to seek health care should they be ill."

there are many different signs of fungal meningitis.

"Fever, new or worsening headache, sometimes neck stiffness.

We've also seen in a few patients signs and symptoms of stroke,

sudden onset of slurred speech, dizziness, difficulty walking, sudden weakness."

They say it could take several months for a fungal infection

And that's the VOA Special English Health Report.

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米国でまれな真菌性髄膜炎が発生（VOA特別英語） 2012年11月18日 (Rare Fungal Meningitis Outbreak in the US (VOA Special English) Nov. 18, 2012)

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