State Epidemiologist Sarah Park says no case of meningitis associated with contaminated epidural steroid injections has been reported in Hawaii. State Epidemiologist Sarah Park says no case of meningitis associated with contaminated epidural steroid injections has been reported in Hawaii.
State Epidemiologist Sarah Park says no case of meningitis associated with contaminated epidural steroid injections has been reported in Hawaii.
Park, the chief of the state Health Department’s Disease Outbreak Control Division, cited the lack of cases in a letter to clinicians dated Oct. 4. She asked doctors, pharmacists and other clinicians to notify the state if they received any pharmacy inventory from the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., which was the source of the tainted injections. She also instructed them to stop using those items immediately.
The Centers for Disease Control website said 15 people have died so far after contracting a fungal infection from the injections. The CDC knows of 214 reported cases across 15 states. The situation remains under investigation, CDC officials said.
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