INDIANAPOLIS - The CEO of a northern Indiana health clinic says two of its patients have tested positive for fungal meningitis after receiving a recalled back pain medication that's been linked to a deadly nationwide outbreak.
OSMC Surgery Center CEO Don Hammond said Friday that two of the Elkhart clinic's patients have been hospitalized with the rare illness.
Indiana State Department of Health spokesman Amanda Turney said the department's earlier report of three confirmed cases was wrong and that the tally stands at two. She wouldn't discuss further details.
Six Indiana health facilities received batches of the medication that was recently recalled by a Massachusetts manufacturer. The other clinics are in Evansville, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Terre Haute and Columbus.
The clinics are contacting more than 1,000 patients who received injections.
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