The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has confirmed that steroid medication linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak is contaminated with a fungus.
A Reuters report says the FDA made that confirmation on one of three lots of the medication, and is still testing the other two. The agency is also testing other injectable medications produced by the New England Compounding Center, the Massachusetts-based specialty pharmacy that produced the infected steroid.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says the ...
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