U.S. health officials have announced that there are four more deaths in the cases related to the meningitis outbreak. There have been cases reported of rare fungal meningitis that is linked to contaminated steroids of methylprednisolone acetate steroid. Patients received injected steroids for back pain and later developed fungal meningitis. So far it has claimed 19 lives and there are over 200 cases all in various states across the United States. New England Compounding Center, in Massachusetts, is responsible for distributing the contaminated steroids and has recalled their products and has stopped production while under investigation.

The FDA stated that there are three lots of at least 17,000 vials of the steroids that were shipped out. So far, they believe 14,000 people may have received the injections and are not sure how many unused vials are still in circulation.

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