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Article posted: 10/11/2012 7:06 PM

CDC: Meningitis outbreak growing, 14 people dead

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Two men stand guard outside the entrance to Ameridose LLC in Westborough, Mass., a separate pharmaceutical firm with common ownership of New England Compounding Center, the source of steroid shots suspected in the outbreak of rare fungal meningitis.

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Federal health officials have tracked down 12,000 of the roughly 14,000 people who may have received contaminated steroid shots in the nation’s growing meningitis outbreak, warning Thursday that patients will need to keep watch for symptoms of the deadly infection for months.