Officials: 1,000 N.J. residents injected with medication linked to meningitis
Friday, October 5, 2012 Last updated: Friday October 5, 2012, 2:26 PM
BY LINDY WASHBURN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
About 1,000 New Jersey residents, including some from a Teaneck pain specialist’s office, were injected with a steroid medication linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak, state officials said today.
But no cases of the rare fungal meningitis have been reported in New Jersey, state Health Commissioner Mary E. O’Dowd said Friday.
Nationwide, five people have died, and about 35 have been sickened in six states, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is leading the investigation.
