Saturday, November 3, 2012

Meningitis Fighters Winding up With Epidural Abscesses

A complication has come up for victims recovering from the meningitis outbreak.

Epidural abscesses are striking them, caused by the same by the same steroid that infected them with the deadly meningitis.

They formed in patients who were took powerful anti-fungal medicines to fight the meningitis.

The abscesses are localized infections that can require surgery.

Doctors are not fully sure how to deal with these ones, as many of the patients are too weak for further operations.

At this time it's unclear how many of the 404, infected with the meningitis, have ended up with abscesses.

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