North Carolina Joins Meningitis Death List

The death toll from meningitis is now up to twenty-three, with North Carolina joining the states that have seen someone die from it.

Across the US the total of those sick rose to 281, with three more sick from peripheral infections.

All of the illness 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.

Investigators are worried that at least two other drugs, made by NECC, may have also been contaminated.