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Terrain. normally, bill, you dont get meningitis this day. a fungus is in the air, its in the soil, the water, you dont get sick from it. the idea of getting it from an injection is not something that we are familiar with this. so the cdc is being vigilant. bill: i got you. this is fungal meningitis. >> correct. bill: right. and it was transported in the combination of the medicine combination from a compounding location in framingham, massachusetts. do we know that is the source. >> they have c...

Neck injection. the fda does not have jurisdiction over the middleman, this compounding pharmacy because federal law has not given them that kind of jurisdiction. i personally believe they should have it, and they should be in there. bill: i got it. okay. mark, thank you. more on this in a little bit. breaking news we want to get to. let us know about the numbers this afternoon. martha: we are waiting for the sentencing for jerry sandusky. he was sentenced to multiple, multiple counts of abusing...

Bill: does this mean the shots are tainted or the material they are putting in the shots. >> its the material they are putting in the shots. the it didnt start with the manufacturer it came from compounding, getting it ready for use. bill: which could mean human contact or something else. >> somebody probably introduced a contaminant here. they had a batch, they introduced a can tam tphapbt of a funk gas and it went out to the various hospitals and khreupb eubs. they are supposed to be looking f...

Seats is what it feels like. what is this coming to? >> for a fee. >> exactly. >> the fee. we will turn to the growing meningitis outbreak. linked to contaminated steroid from a massachusetts pharmacy. federal officials are warning doctors not to use any medicines made at the new england compounding pharmacy. at least six people have died, and there my be as many as 35 cases across six states. the victims became ill after getting a steroid shot for back pain. nearly 100 doctors, nurses, and ...

Other family members that are going through this. i keep in touch with a lot of the players and players wives that shane played with. they are getting older, and theres a lot going on, i mean a lot of these players are experiencing things, and that are worrysome. >> and the relationship between concussions and hits is that people are going to follow. deadly mistake in alabama. nine people have died after getting food supplements from iv bags contaminated with a rare bacteria. the bags were mix...

Because regardless of whether or not these bags are pre-mixed, theyre made at a different location. the bottom line, its the hospitals that are administering them. what type of monitoring is in place to protect against this? >> well, i think thats the question. i mean the hospitals are getting a product that is supposed to be sterile. and they have every reason to believe that it is sterile. and these hospitals actually undertook some screening once they began to see this problem to identify wha...

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