The meningitis toll now has risen to 9 in the State of Ohio according to the Ohio Department of Health. This up from 7 a mere 24 hours ago . Warren County, Ohio has reported their first person with fungal meningitis. Hamilton county had previously reported one person with the disease as a result of the tainted steroid shots compounded by the New England Compounding Center .

Ohio Menigitis Outbreak by the Numbers and Counties

Here is the current toll in Ohio as of 10/17/2102 5:30 PM EST

As a Cincinnati personal injury lawyer reviewing meningitis outbreak cases for legal redress there are certain questions I have for people that have received the tainted drug. There are also questions I have for the medical community. And then there are critical things to know about this outbreak.

5 Critical Facts About Fungal Meningitis

Outbreak

 1. This disease can cause stroke and death.

The Cincinnati Pain Management Consultants in Ohio on Cornell Road have been implicated by the Center for Disease control as having injected the tainted steroid batches compounded by the NECC . The first article on the subject incorrectly had stated this terribly misleading incorrect headline:

Local clinic got meningitis-linked steroids

But unlikely local patients received doses.    

Four facilities in Ohio have been identifed by the CDC as having purchased and used the tainted steroid from the NECC. However news reports are seemingly contradictory whether the Cincinnati Pain Managment Center on Cornell road in Cincinnati, Ohio used the steroid.

As an Ohio personal injury attorney and with an office close to one of the facilities alleged to have purchased some of the

Epidural steroid tainted

tainted steroid from the New England Compounding Center I wanted to provide you with this update on the outbreak of meningitis.

The deadly fungal meningitis outbreak linked to the New England Compounding Center has reached Ohio. In fact it has been confirmed that four locations in Ohio  received the tainted steroid for use in epidural injections primarily for back pain.  

  Urgent Safety Bulletin on Meningitis Outbreak