Georgia Becomes Seventeenth State With Meningitis Case

The meningitis outbreak has now hit seventeen states, as Georgia reports it's first case.

Three hundred and four cases of the deadly disease have now been reported and another four people are ill for infections in joints.

The death toll stayed steady at twenty-three.

All of the illnesses and deaths were caused by a contamination in anti inflammatory steroid shots.

Seventy-six locations, in twenty-three states, were sent the shots, which were given to as many as fourteen thousand people.

New England Compounding Center made the shots, and has complied completely with government officials who are conducting the investigation.

Officials are investigating at least two other drugs, made by NECC, for possibilities that they too may have been contaminated.

Meningitis can take forty-two days to surface, leading to the still growing epidemic.