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To the centers for disease control. jonathan, we are learning more about the incubation period of this rare form of the disease. >>guest: we are. new information coming from tennessee which is dealing with the largest number of cases, doctors in that state are seeing patients develop symptoms an average of 18 days after injection. public house officials have found that for patients exposed to the tainted modes, the majority of risk stroke or death is gone by 42 days after injection. there is sti...

Know how long it takes to incubate. the centers for disease control if atlanta reports cases across 16 states. jonathan, how rare is this outbreak, jonathan? >>jonathan: these outbreaks are rare but they do happen. we spoke with dr. perfect of duke university and he talks about a smaller but similar outbreak that occurred in 2002 where patients developed arthritis linked to contamination found in the same type of steroid from another compounding pharmacy. listen. >> the biology around the organi...

Them involving people who received steroid injections for back pain. receiving these epidural injections. however, the fda is investigating additional medications produced by that same compounding pharmacy, the new england compounding center, for possible contamination. a patient injected with a separate necc back medication has developed a possible but unconfirmed case of meningitis and the fda is investigating a non-meningitis fungal infection in a patients who received a cardiac medication du...

With meningitis. a serious development. officials with the food and drug administration are working to confirm three infections which they say have come from different products. but all from the same massachusetts-based compounding pharmacy where they make the products. we dont know exactly what other products could be tainted. health officials say tainted steroid shotted has fungus and infected 3112 people and 15 people are confirmed dead, and officials in person report that the states first ca...

In your spine or even in your arm from one of these compounding pharmacies check with your doctor to see. >> clayton it is only one compounding pharmacy. >> right that one up in massachusetts. >> the one in massachusetts. this is a reminder for us. if you are getting a shot, there is always a risk of introducing foreign body, infection. people should realize i do need this shot? i dont want to scare anyone out there. i think the fact that its not contagious calm. this is a wakeup call. did you n...

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Compounding pharmacies are doing a good job. this is a terrible, terrible anomaly and we need to get to the bottom of what happened here. if patients are concerned, ask your doctor, ask your clinic, are you receiving drugs from a compounding pharmacy or from a regular pharmaceutical manufacturer if thats your concern. jenna: do you think that the legitimate concern now because there are questions raised about regulation here, do you think that is a legitimate concern in a question that maybe pat...

Jenna: it gives an and alternative for a lower cost fitting as you mentioned doctor. what do you think the questions are that we should ask as we see this outbreak and seem affected. what conditions, not as patients but in general should we be asking from the authorities, whether its congress, the fda, just to make sure that this continues to be as you mentioned a safe resource for many different drugs? >> i think the hearings that are sure to take place will be asking what exactly is a compound...

State says what was going on at new england compounding center may have violated state law. listen. >> what they were supposed to be doing is filling specific prescriptions for specifi i this would understand a pharmacy to do. what they were doing instead is making big batches and selling them out of state as a manufacturer would, and that is certainly outside of their job. bill: regulators in massachusetts are now requiring all compounding pharmacy tph-s that state to provide sworn affidavits t...

Compounding pharmacies like the one where the steroid was produced. there were virtually none of these pharmacies back in 2000. now there are 3,000 of them in our country. the primary thing for these pharmacies is to make a liquid form of a pill, for example. like the big drug companies, compounding pharmacies are over seen by state boards and some suggest that might be one of the issues if any. dr. william shafner is back with us on the program. when you read these stories you wonder as a patie...