Is Your Health at Risk from New England Compounding Pharmacy Errors?
Contact the Texas Board Certified Houston Injury Lawyers at Denena & Points if Your Health is at Risk due to Pharmacy Errors
The Houston injury lawyers at Denena & Points are alarmed at the rising numbers of deaths and illnesses from the fungal meningitis outbreak linked to the New England Compounding Center. We want to help patients at risk from the pharmacy’s medications to get necessary medical care.
We encourage you to contact us to report any symptoms from the contaminated medications right away. We could help you find medical help if you need it. And we want to ensure that the FDA has current information on all illnesses linked to the pharmacy’s errors. Call us at 281-369-4363 or fill out our “Get Help Now” online contact form.
Pharmacists and Pharmacy linked to Deadly Meningitis Outbreak must Surrender Licenses
Massachusetts state pharmacy board regulators have finally issued an order barring the pharmacists and technicians of the New England Compounding Center from ever practicing in the pharmacy industry again in Massachusetts. The order states that the investigation of the deadly fungal meningitis outbreak determined that these employees “may present an immediate or serious threat to the public health, safety, and welfare” and that they should immediately cease practice in the industry.
The Massachusetts pharmacy board had already asked for the permanent surrender of the New England Compounding Center’s pharmacy license and permanent revocation of the licenses of the company’s three primary pharmacists. The deadly fungal meningitis outbreak that led to the investigation and subsequent order has sickened at least 419 and killed 30 patients.
Surprising Secondary Infections Developing in Patients Ill with Fungal Meningitis
And now patients infected with the fungal meningitis are also starting to present epidural abscesses as secondary infections. An epidural abscess is a nasty condition consisting of a gathering of pus between the coverings of the brain and spinal cord and the nearby bones of the spine and skull. (Sources: United Press International, Inc., 11/6/12 and CNN NewSource, 11/5/12)
The presentation of the two infections is atypical and puzzling to doctors and CDC officials. In some states, numbers of cases of epidural abscess related to the fungal meningitis infections approach the numbers of the meningitis infections. Michigan and Tennessee are the states with the two highest numbers of infections from the contaminated New England Compounding Center drugs. But symptoms take weeks to appear and health officials fear that many of those infected have not yet been identified. Many patients may be at risk that do not yet know of their danger.