A 70-year-old Cumberland County man is hospitalized with what is believed to be the illness.
New Jersey is reporting its first apparent case of fungal meningitis.
State health officials say a 70-year-old Cumberland County man is hospitalized with what is believed to be the illness. He received an injection of a steroid from one of the lots recalled by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts and tied to a meningitis outbreak.
Health officials say the man developed headaches and went to the emergency room with a fever. He is being treated with anti-fungal medication at South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center in Vineland.
New Jersey health officials say 650 patients in the state received shots of the potentially contaminated steroid. Symptoms appear one to four weeks after treatment.
The number of people sickened by a deadly meningitis outbreak has now reached 119 cases, including 11 deaths, according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's updated numbers released today. The other states involved in the outbreak are Tennessee, Michigan, Virginia, Indiana, Florida, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina and Ohio.
Health care facilities in New Jersey that received this medication have removed the product from inventory. Those facilities are:
- Central Jersey Orthopedics Specialists PC, South Plainfield
- Edison Surgical Center, Edison
- IF Pain Associates/Isaiah Florence, Teaneck
- Premier Orthopedics Surgical Assoc, LLC, Vineland
- Comprehensive Pain Management, Sparta
- South Jersey Healthcare, Elmer and Vineland