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Tainted steroids found to cause spinal infections

Health officials investigating the national fungal meningitis outbreak caused by tainted steroid injections had thought that the worst was over. The number of new cases was dwindling. Then came patients like Anna Adair.

An avid gardener and dog-breeder, Adair was rolled into a Michigan emergency room in a wheelchair Nov. 15. She had been bedridden for days, and that morning a bolt of pain in her lower back had caused her to tumble to the bathroom floor.

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Massachusetts Health Care, soup to nuts, is the proverbial Beast. Someone has to get this animal under control, it is casuing just too much damage.