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  • From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English.

  • Health officials in the United States

  • are attempting to contact patients

  • who recently received steroid injections for back pain.

  • That is because the injections

  • may have been carrying a fungus.

  • Thousands of patients may be at risk of developing a rare form of fungal

  • meningitis.

  • Health officials reported Monday that fifteen people

  • had died

  • from fungal meningitis

  • linked to steroid shots.

  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said

  • said there were more than two hundred

  • confirmed cases of the disease

  • in fifteen states.

  • The majority of the cases were in three states: Tennessee, Michigan and Virginia.

  • Meningitis infects membranes that protect the brain and the spinal cord.

  • There are five kinds of meningitis.

  • Fungal meningitis is the rarest form of the disease.

  • Other forms can result from bacteria, a virus or a parasite.

  • Last Thursday, officials reported that tests

  • ound evidence of the suspect fungus in more than fifty vials of the steroid.

  • They said all those vials were manufactured by the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts.

  • The company has suspended operations and recalled

  • all of its products for inspection.

  • Compounding or specialty pharmacies often custom-mix medicines

  • at levels, and in forms, that may not be available from other manufacturers.

  • Under Massachusetts law, compounding pharmacies are only permitted to make

  • small amounts of made-to-order prescription drugs.

  • The patients who developed meningitis were being treated for back pain.

  • The Centers for Disease Control says

  • others who received the injections in others who received the injections in their joints

  • are not thought to be at risk.

  • John Jernigan of the CDC is investigating the meningitis outbreak.

  • CDC is working with state and local health departments

  • to contact patients who may have received injections at the facilities who

  • received

  • received the recalled lots of this medication

  • to inform (them) that they, that they may have been exposed, to find out

  • if they're having symptoms,

  • and to instruct them to seek health care should they be ill."

  • Dr. Jernigan says

  • there are many different signs of fungal meningitis.

  • fever

  • "Fever, new or worsening headache, sometimes neck stiffness.

  • We've also seen in a few patients signs and symptoms of stroke,

  • sudden onset of slurred speech, dizziness, difficulty walking, sudden weakness."

  • Health experts say

  • they do not know how many people

  • will actually become sick.

  • They say it could take several months for a fungal infection

  • to develop.

  • And that's the VOA Special English Health Report.

  • I'm Steve Ember. (November 18, 2012)

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English.

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美國爆發罕見的真菌性腦膜炎 (VOA Special English) 2012年11月18日。 (Rare Fungal Meningitis Outbreak in the US (VOA Special English) Nov. 18, 2012)

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