As meningitis outbreak spreads, so do lawsuits 
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Tags: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug litigation, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, fungal meningitis, meningitis, NECC, New England Compounding Center, steroid injections, wrongful death
Lawsuits over the fungal meningitis outbreak from contaminated steroid injections are spreading nationwide as more cases are discovered.
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