live from atlanta. what is the latest? >> the latest on this is the food and drug administration is telling doctors don't use any products from the new england compounding center. this is a company that puts different drugs together and as we have seen, one of these drugs is associated with the i illnesses. they had back pain and what they are investigating now is there could be a fungus in there that's making people sick. these are people -- only problem was back pain. that's what they were going in for. now they have fungal meningitis, extremely difficult disease to treat and very dead. >> i fda has inexpected a facility where this was produced. what did they find. >> when they went in there they actually found fungus in a vial that you could see with the naked eye. i heard that gasp. yes, i gasped, too. they could see it. they saw this, looked in a vial

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