Meningitis Toll Stands at 31 Dead

In what should be the final increase in cases of the meningitis outbreak, numbers have reached 424 sickened, ten of which are with joint infections.

Thirty-one people have died from the fungal meningitis.

These should be the final cases, as it has now been over forty-two days, the time in which it can take for meningitis to show itself, since the recall began.

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, voluntarily recalled all of their products.