Spouse of meningitis victim has same illness

A Livingston County man whose wife died last month in a meningitis outbreak is in a hospital with the same illness.

George Cary, 65, of Howell began having severe headaches Friday, just days after being told that initial tests in early October showed no evidence of meningitis, he told the Associated Press in a statement Wednesday.

Cary didn't disclose the name of the hospital.

He and his wife, Lilian, were treated for back and neck pain at a Brighton-area clinic that used contaminated steroids made by a Massachusetts pharmacy. Lilian Cary died Sept. 30.

The tainted drugs have been linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis that has sickened 317 people nationwide, including five joint infections, and has killed 24.

Cary's news comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a 24th person had died of a fungal infection after receiving steroid injections for back pain in Indiana.


By Charles E. Ramirez
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