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Meningitis outbreak deaths rise to 19

Last updated Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 4:47pm

NEW YORK — Health officials say four more people have died in the national meningitis outbreak, bringing the number of deaths to 19.

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CDC issues warning for those who received epidurals, joint injections recently

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, October 15, 2012 - 11:52pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah was not one of the states affected by the recent fungal meningitis outbreak connected with a steroid injection.

However, the Utah Department of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration are asking everyone who received any epidural or joint injection within the past few months to watch for any signs or symptoms of illness, especially those linked with meningitis: headache, neck pain and stiffness, fever, nausea, vomiting, weakness, numbness and sensitivity to light. Symptoms can show up one to four weeks after receiving the injection.

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Dr. Lucy Wilson, right, chief of surveillance, infection protection and outbreak response with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, speaks during a news conference in Baltimore, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, about response efforts to an outbreak of meningitis that may be linked to steroid injections. Two cases of the illness, one fatal, have been reported in Maryland. Also pictured is Maryland Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene Josh Sharfstein. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Tainted steroid behind meningitis outbreak

Mike Stobbe The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 5, 2012 - 9:53am

NEW YORK — Health providers are scrambling to notify patients in nearly two dozen states that the routine steroid injections they received for back pain in recent months may have been contaminated with a deadly fungal meningitis.

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 photo, Dr. David Reagan, chief medical officer for the Tennessee Department of Health, right, and Dr. Marion Kayiner, also with the state health department tell local and national media about an outbreak of fungal meningitis infections that have already killed two and sickened 13 others in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, Shelley Mays)

Rare meningitis outbreak in 5 states; 4 dead

Mike Stobbe, Travis Loller The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 4:36pm

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Health officials say a rare meningitis outbreak has sickened 26 people in five states who received steroid injections for back pain. Four people have died.

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Only 49 percent of Utah’s youths get meningitis vaccinations

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, June 10, 2012 - 11:15pm

Utah has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country to protect adolescents against the most deadly type of meningitis.

Stacy Drew, a nurse for Canyon School District in Sandy, said only 49 percent of Utah’s youths have been vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis, placing Utah at the 13th-lowest rate in the country.

That is setting a dangerous stage for the disease to become a big problem, she said.

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Syracuse student dies from meningitis

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 3:49pm

SYRACUSE -- A North Davis County teen recently died from complications related to meningitis and encephalitis.

According to Davis County Health Department year-end reports, from 2008 to 2010 there were six reported cases, two each year, of the "quite severe" bacterial meningitis.

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Shocking meningitis death highlights need to be vaccinated

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 8:01pm

OGDEN -- With all her toughness, meningitis still managed to take the life of Shaelyn Skeen.

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Meningitis deaths prompt CDC to recommend vaccine for teens

Lora Hines, The Press-Enterprise

Last updated Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 3:01pm

Teenagers should get vaccinated to protect against the bacteria that causes meningococcal meningitis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends in a report published Thursday.

Publication in the Jan. 27 issue of "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" formalizes the recommendations made this fall by the federal agency's advisory committee on immunization practices.

The committee's guidelines call for "routine vaccination of adolescents, preferably at age 11 or 12 years, with a booster dose at age 16," the report says of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine.

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