10/24/12 - After originally being told he was in the clear, a local man whose wife died in the national meningitis outbreak has been hospitalized and says he is being treated for the same illness. 65-year-old George Cary of Howell Township told The Associated Press that he began having severe headaches on Friday, just days after being told that tests in early October and a spinal tap showed no evidence of meningitis. He did not disclose the name of the hospital but just yesterday, another local woman was re-admitted to the hospital after experiencing new symptoms. Caryâs late wife Lilian died September 30th. Both received injections at a Brighton clinic along with 46-year-old Brenda Bansale of Howell Township, who spent two weeks at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor after contracting fungal meningitis. She had been discharged last Saturday but was re-admitted yesterday. Bansale is suing the Massachusetts pharmacy for negligence after contracting meningitis from the tainted steroids. Her lawyer Marc Lipton told WHMI yesterday that she was suffering from some additional symptoms that required her to be urgently tested and then re-admitted to the hospital. At least six Michigan residents have died as a result of the outbreak. The rare disease has been traced to contaminated steroids made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, which were sent to clinics across the country including Michigan Pain Specialists in Brighton. Photo Courtesy of AP. (JM)
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