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14th Suit Filed in NECC Outbreak

An Alabama woman is the first to file a suit from that state.

 

A 14th person has filed a lawsuit in Boston against Framingham-based New England Compounding Center, which is linked to a meningitis outbreak that has killed 36 people and sickened 541.

The Boston Herald reported that a 31-year-old woman said she suffered temporary hearing loss and a painfully bloated face from an injection she received this summer at one of Alabama’s largest hospitals. 

The suit is the first from Alabama. 

The CDC is expected to release updated outbreak numbers today.

The meningitis outbreak has led to the permanent closure of New England Compounding Center, and set inspectors' sights on Westborough-based Ameridose, which has the same owners. Ameridose has not been implicated in the outbreak.

For full coverage of the NECC outbreak, click here.

Related Topics: Meningitis Outbreak and NECC

Steve Adams

12:51 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012

How the heck could Ameridose still be open? Same company, same owners, same disgusting, unethical, unthinkable inspection process...and who the hell would ever buy from them now?

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George Lewis

3:29 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012

Not much has been said about Alaunus Pharmaceutical LLC. It's another company of theirs in the business of developing pharmaceuticals at the same 687 Waverly Street address as New England Compounding Center.

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