CDC leads the fight against meningitis outbreak
ATLANTA (MCT) — The emergency operations center is bustling at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where scientists recently learned that the fungus linked to a multistate outbreak of lethal meningitis is actually two fungi.
That means the CDC must revise the treatment protocol and advise doctors in the 23 states with potential victims to switch to a broader spectrum of drugs.
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