Tennessee
Health Commissioner John Dreyzehner announced Thursday that, since Thanksgiving,
officials have identified 22 new cases of localized infections and one case of
meningitis without a localized infection in patients who received tainted
steroid injections. State health officials said just before Thanksgiving that
about 900 patients had received injections from recalled lots of the steroid
but hadn't developed meningitis. Nationally, at least 560 people have been
sickened and 36 have died. Thirteen of those deaths were in Tennessee
