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Steroid linked to Meningitis outbreak sent to Chicago area
Posted: 10.05.2012 at 2:49 PM
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Nationally, at least 35 people have contracted fungal meningitis and five of them have died.  / MGN Graphic
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Illinois health officials say a steroid medication suspected of causing an outbreak of a deadly form of meningitis was shipped to a pain clinic with six locations in the Chicago area.

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