Meningitis Death Toll Up to 7

Blue states received contaminated shipments.

Meningitis has now killed seven people, in Maryland, Michigan, Tennessee, and Virginia. Sixty-four people in nine states have been confirmed as having the deadly disease, with Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Ohio being the other five.

Everyone of those people received methylprednisolone acetate via a shot to their spine. The steroid, used to treat inflammation, had been contaminated with a fungus, that contained the meningitis.

Seventy-six facilities, in twenty-three states, had received shipments of the drug. They are California, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.

New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy that made the injections, has voluntarily given up it's license, while the FDA investigates, and recalled all other products that they make, as a precaution.

The FDA is asking people who were given the injections to contact them by phone at 1-800-FDA-1088 or online.