10/23/12 - A Howell Township woman who was the first to file a federal lawsuit after contracting fungal meningitis is back in the hospital. 46-year-old Brenda Bansale was discharged last Saturday from St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, where she had been hospitalized for two weeks. Her lawyer Marc Lipton tells WHMI that Brenda had some additional symptoms that required her to be urgently tested and she was re-admitted to the hospital today. He says she was already scheduled for an MRI tomorrow but called her physician to see if she could get in any earlier. Lipton says itâs his understanding that when they learned of the symptoms she was experiencing, they told her to come in to the hospital. Bansale was diagnosed with fungal meningitis after being injected with a contaminated steroid at a Brighton clinic for back pain. She was the first in the state to file a class action lawsuit against the Massachusetts specialty pharmacy that produced the tainted steroids. The suit is for all Michigan residents who were exposed. Meanwhile, authorities reported today that there are now a total of six deaths and 69 infections in Michigan as part of the national fungal meningitis outbreak. The deaths include a 62-year-old man and a 78-year-old woman in Washtenaw County, a 79-year-old Oakland County woman, a 56-year-old Genesee County woman, and 67-year-old Lilian Cary of Howell Township, who was the first reported in the state. Photo courtesy of WLNS. (JM)
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