Illness
traced to epidural steroid injection
By
Nick Tabor, New Era Senior Staff Writer
The
state has five confirmed reports of fungal meningitis in Kentucky, and three or four evidently
occurred in the southern Pennyrile.
An
epidural steroid injection from Massachusetts
is apparently causing the statewide outbreak, and though no facilities in Kentucky have received it, a major Nashville
clinic — the Saint Thomas
Outpatient Neurosurgery
Center — did use the
injection.
All
five Kentuckians who contracted the illness received medical care in Tennessee, the state
reported. Facilities in Crossville and Knoxville,
Tenn., also used the injection,
according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
