In good news, officials have dropped the death toll, back to twenty-eight, saying that the twenty-ninth that had been reported was a duplicate report.
Meningitis can take forty-two days to surface, leading to the still growing epidemic.
All of the illnesses and deaths were caused by a contamination in anti inflammatory steroid shots, most of which were given via the spine.
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.
Things are only getting worse for the company, and now the government, as evidence comes out that they had been under investigation, for issues in their processing, since 2002.
Their sister company, Ameridose LLC, which has the same owners, is voluntarily recalling all of their products.
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