Eye Drugs Recalled After Meningitis Death
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Contra Costa County health officials ordered a recall Friday of injectable and certain eye medications following one man’s death and the infection of three others with a noncontagious form of meningitis.
The four contracted the disease after receiving cortisone shots contaminated with the bacteria, health investigators said.
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