13,000 People Exposed to Big Pharma
Shots Contaminated with Rare Fungal Meningitis
Oct 2012
As of Monday, contaminated steroids have sickened 105 people with a
noncontagious but deadly form of fungal meningitis, while 13,000 people may have
been exposed to the contamination. Eight have died. Health officials attribute
the outbreak to spinal steroid injections for back pain. The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) found fungus in sealed vials of the steroid in question,
produced by the Massachusetts-based pharmacy, New England Compounding Center (NECC).
The NECC voluntarily recalled all of its products on Saturday and surrendered
its license to operate until completion of the FDA’s investigation.
You can find a list of the 76 medical facilities that obtained the steroid at
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.
What is Fungal Meningitis?
Meningitis inflames the membranes protecting the brain and spinal cord. Usually
brought on by a viral or bacterial infection, fungal infection is rare and not
contagious but no less deadly. Symptoms include headache; fever; nausea;
stiffness of the neck; and (in the case of fungal infection) confusion,
dizziness, and aversion to bright light. Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt
University Medical Center says that because blood vessels clot or bleed in
response to fungal infections, symptoms are rarely mild and can be as severe as
small strokes.
Because patients treated earlier have greater chances of survival, health
officials encourage people with symptoms to seek aid.
Other Dangers of Pharmaceuticals
About 1 in 10 drugs administered in the U.S. are manufactured in compound
facilities, which do not answer to FDA mandates and instead go through state
health pharmacy boards before sale.
To be fair, the FDA is complicit in a number of other conditions resultant of
vaccines and harmful pharmaceuticals. In example, after being administered
steroids for an asthma attack, Shanyna Isom developed a skin condition wherein
she grows fingernails instead of hair. Her condition is the only one recorded in
the world and has cost her family over a quarter of a million dollars in medical
bills.
Additionally, a report from the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and
Biology found states that aluminum hydroxide in vaccines may cause a deadly
aluminum overdose for children and adults. Vaccines have also been linked to
autism, Guillain-Barre syndrome, paralysis, and death in addition to less severe
chronic conditions like allergies and autoimmune diseases.
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