Escambia Clinics Receive Medication Linked To Meningitis Outbreak

October 6, 2012

At least two Escambia County clinics received back pain medication linked to a meningitis outbreak, according to state health officials.

The Florida Department of Health is working closely with the CDC, state partners and other states on a meningitis outbreak associated with spinal injections of methylprednisolone for back pain. To date, eight facilities in Florida — including the two in Escambia County — have been identified as having received shipments from one or more of the CDC-identified contaminated lot numbers of the medication.

The facilities receiving the potential contaminated medications in Escambia County are the Interventional Rehab Center in Pensacola and Pain Consultants of West Florida, also in Pensacola.

The health department said that individuals that may have been injected with methylprednisolone acetate from these facilities be evaluated immediately and monitored or treated as necessary.

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4 Responses to “Escambia Clinics Receive Medication Linked To Meningitis Outbreak”

  1. Kathy Myers on October 8th, 2012 8:38 pm

    What about some of the other pain centers that give these shots this is so scary. Has anyone heard anything about them? It is good to see Dr.Lanza keeping up with this thank you sir.

  2. John J. Lanza, MD on October 8th, 2012 9:05 am

    Mike,
    Please call the Escambia County Health Department at 850.595.6651 so that we can help you. Dr. Lanza

  3. Mike on October 6th, 2012 8:03 pm

    My wife had one of these injections a few months ago and became ill for about a week when she told the dr about her head hurting so bad it was blown off I wonder how we could find out if she had had one.

  4. MaryB. on October 6th, 2012 7:02 am

    Is there any information on Alabama’s supply? My sister n law just got an injection in Mobile, the day before this story broke.!

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