CHICAGO, Dec 20: – As bad as the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak has been, so far infecting 620 people in 19 states and killing 39 of them, it could have been a lot worse, US health officials said yesterday. Prior and much smaller fungal outbreaks involving tainted spinal injections were far more deadly, killing as many as 40 to 50 per cent of those who had become infected,’ said Dr. Rachel Smith, an epidemic intelligence service officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (agencies)
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