The number of individuals who developed meningitis after receiving tainted steroid injections stands at 297 as of Monday afternoon, more than four times the number of when federal authorities first reported the outbreak on Oct. 6.According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 23 people have died from a fungal meningitis infection related to medications manufactured by the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass.The majority of the infections and deaths are in Tennessee, where 69 cases of meningitis and nine deaths are tied to the tainted drugs. The CDC is reportin...
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