Macon Surgery Center Used Contaminated Steroids
State health officials confirm that an outpatient surgery center in Macon gave injections from a batch of contaminated steroids to nearly 200 patients.
The steroids came from a compounding center in Massachusetts and are believed to be responsible for five deaths nationwide due to fungal meningitis.
189 patients at the Forsyth Street Ambulatory Surgery Center in Macon got injections from a contaminated batch.
As of this morning, 160 of those patients had been reached. Six are showing some type of symptoms.
According to state epidemiologist Cherie Drenzek, “They have shown very mild or vague symptoms primarily consisting of headache. These individuals, in fact, may or may not be related to this particular outbreak in the sense that we don’t know for sure that they have infection but they are being evaluated by their physician.”
The symptoms of meningitis are fever, headache, weakness, and stiffness in the neck. The incubation period could be anywhere from one to four weeks after the injection.
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