Multistate Meningitis Outbreak

October 4 ¨C November 8, 2012

At a glance

ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø activated its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to support the Multistate Meningitis outbreak.

Microscopic image of meningitis

About the Response

ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø collaborated with state and local health departments and the Food and Drug Administration to investigate a multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis and other infections among patients.

These patients received contaminated preservative-free MPA steroid injections from the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts.