Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Michigan official seeks grand jury to probe meningitis outbreak

Michigan official seeks grand jury to probe meningitis outbreak

Framingham police officers keep watch as federal agents search the New England Compounding Center company in Framingham, MassachusettsBy Dawson Bell LANSING, Mich (Reuters) - Michigan's attorney general on Tuesday asked state courts to authorize a grand jury to investigate whether a company linked to a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis and other infections broke any state laws. The outbreak, linked to tainted steroids shipped in 2012 by the Massachusetts-based New England Compounding Center, has killed 51 people and sickened 730, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A representative of NECC declined to comment on the Michigan attorney general's announcement. ...



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