"The New England Journal of Medicine described the fungal meningitis outbreak as “unprecedented.” However, residents of the Fredericksburg area could be forgiven for thinking they’d seen it all before."

http://news.fredericksburg.com/newsdesk/2013/03/02/area-too-had-deadly-link-to-compounding-pharmacy/

March 2nd, 2013, 11:17 pm

Area, too, had deadly link to ‘compounding’ pharmacy

BY JIM HALL

The New England Journal of Medicine described the fungal meningitis outbreak as “unprecedented.” However, residents of the Fredericksburg area could be forgiven for thinking they’d seen it all before.

Fredericksburg and Mary Washington Hospital were the focus of a similar tragedy in 2005. As in Massachusetts, the incident involved a compounding pharmacy, contaminated medicine and patient injuries and death. And again, there were questions and accusations.

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To date, 48 people have been killed by the company’s medicine. More than 700 people have been injured in 20 states.