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"The meningitis scare is hitting closer to home after health officials said a local pain clinic is on the list of places that received the tainted drug.The Cincinnati Pain Management in Montgomery is one of four facilities in Ohio tagged by state health officials for receiving a potentially contaminated drug used for epidural steroid injections.\"What's really important for folks to know here is there are two kinds of epidural. Epidural for surgery (is) much different from what we are talking about here. This is steroid epidural and it was given at one place in Tri-State and one place only,\" said Mike Samet, of the Hamilton County Health Department.Seven states, including Indiana, are confirming about four dozen rare cases of meningitis. Health officials said people are becoming ill after receiving the steroid injections.\"It's very often deadly. It's not your normal bacterial, but it's fungal. That's not something we see very often,\" Samet said.So far, authorities said five deaths have been linked to the outbreak.Hospitals in the area have been flooded with calls, while a doctor with the pain management clinic said they are very concerned for their patients and are taking care of all of them. He said no one has been affected so far.\"If you received an injection at Cincinnati Pain Management, contact your doctor. A lot of people will develop flu-like symptoms. It starts very slowly,\" Samet said.Marion and Dublin, Ohio, are the other locations where officials said facilities were found to have the recalled product.The Hamilton County Health Department said the investigation is ongoing."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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