At a glance
CDC activated its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to support the Multistate Meningitis outbreak.
About the Response
CDC collaborated with state and local health departments and the Food and Drug Administration to investigate a multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis and other infections among patients.
These patients received contaminated preservative-free MPA steroid injections from the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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Office of Readiness and Response