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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 that's 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 patients should start asking nar their doctors? >> personally i'm less concerned on this because we ar...

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 patient how can i protect myself? did i ever once get a drug or get an injection from a compounding pharm...

Also is located in the state of massachusetts. it has agreed to shut down to allow state and federal authorities in to inspect its operations, although it is a separate entity, it shares the same owners as the new england compounding center, the pharmacy that formulated the injectable back pain medication suspected in this meningitis outbreak. ameridose released a written statement saying, quote: this action was taken proactively and cooperatively with the board of registration of pharmacy out of an abundance of caution to insure the safety of all ameridose products. the company goes on to say...

Officials still believe that if they begin with treatment early, it will have the best possible outcome very important reasons, they need to identify and test the patient as soon as possible. jenna: we certainly hope the best possible outcome, jonathan. what is being done to prevent future outbreaks? reporter: there is already an effort underway to members in congress. in fact on a house committee on energy and commerce has sent a formal request to the fda requesting a briefing by the end of the week. this was also sent to the cdc. some members of the committee have expressed concern of pharma...

Alone have died. officials say as many as 13,000 people may be at risk. 13,000 after getting injections for back pain and other joint problems. the massachusetts pharmacy at the center of the outbreak has since issued a voluntary recall of its products. the latest death is out of florida. it turns out that person died months ago before authorities linked the infection to the steroid shots. jonathan is in atlanta. this death in florida happened in july. what do we know about it? >> that's right. it was a 70-year-old man, florida health officials confirmed he had received an injection of this me...