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to do with the way the vials have been stored. the problem is not the procedure but the actual steroid that is in the contaminateed vials. >>shepard: if you had one of the shots, you ought to call someone and if you have not had an injection there is no problem. >>guest: absolutely. and for pregnant women, injections during child birth, this is not related. they do not include void injections. >>shepard: that is comforting. israel shot a drone out of the sky and a member of the parliament says it belonged to hezbollah. what iran is saying about this and our next guest says this situation will "get hairy in a hurry." a family went to a wedding celebration now planning for a funeral after two wedding parties got into a massive brawl. the cops became involved. of course, there is videotape. or video. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis sympto. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficu

more than 17,000 vials of the drug were shipped. some contaminated with a fungus that goes into the spinal fluid, up to the brain, and causes a rare formal of meningitis, whose symptoms is look like a stroke. >> to have a shot, six days later, you are fighting for your life. >> reporter: health officials tracked the problem to the new england compounding center in massachusetts, which has closed down operation. there are more than 7,500 compounding pharmacies in the country. they make 1% to 3% of all prescription drugs. and they can be lifesavers. custom mixing their treatments for customers with special medical needs. but they operate with little federal oversight. >> this sort of contamination of material from a compounding pharmacy has happened before. these compounding pharmacies are not under the rigorous regular supervision of the food and drug administration. >> reporter: and now, patients in pain worried about what to do next. >> i'm not just concerned for me, i'm concerned for many. >> it is oa tense time. what do you do if

, the steroid into the vials, it gets in there. that's what's gone wrong and why the fda has to step up supervision to these pharmacies. once it gets in, it's not contagious so everyone watching, you shouldn't think you're going to get this if you didn't get an infection. you can't. but you could get it if you had one of these infections that came from this particular compounding pharmacy over the last several weeks. >> do they keep track? >> they do. >> if you call your doctor, would they know? >> exactly. you have to check with the doctor and say where did it come from? then you have to be on the lookout. after a few weeks you won't get t. >> you get fever, headache, malaise. with fungal meningitis you don't get the same rip roaring symptoms as bacterial. >> what is malaise. >>> fatigue, tired, no energy. >> why don't they shut this place down? >> it's done. >> that's right. not just this place, i'm -- sheer shutting this play -- place down. i'm worried across the board. >> i have to tell you also, yes and no, but there's 7500 of

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federal investigators found fungal contaminants in unopened vials at the facility. today the fda announced that the pharmacy shipped some of the suspect medication to 23 states including california. if you had an epidural steroid injection since july, this is what you need to know. it's an inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord. symptoms are severe, worsening headaches, nausea, dizziness, fever. in some cases symptoms might mimic a stroke with slurred speech and difficulty with walking, showing up within one to four weeks. >> perhaps some patients and certainly some doctors wouldn't think of meningitis right away if the patient presented primarily with those kinds of symptoms. >> reporter: to date, there have been no reports of illness in california. we don't know at this point where the drug was shipped in california but health experts expect to see more cases. if you have any symptoms or pain, tenderness or swelling at the injection site call your doctor to see if were you given a shot from a suspect vial. dr. kim mulvihill, cbs 5. >> you see this

the suspected source is tainted vials of steroids that were oipped to 23 states. seth doane is in tennessee, the state with the most cases. >> honest to goodness, as time went on, i became more and more frightened. >> reporter: on monday, sue manner learned she might have ten infected by the fungus in the contaminated steroids given for back pain. what symptoms have you been told to look out for. >> headache, neck pain, uhm, vomiting, dizziness, a lot of flu-like symptoms. >> reporter: those could be symptoms-- >> could be anything. mareporter: manner was one of more than 700 patients who received injections at clinics ffiliated with st. thomas hospital in nashville. >> i don't want this thing in my body. i feel like i want to plunger. i want to pull it out, get out of my body. >> yeah, they were all worried and she rightfully so. tf've told them all that this is very serious. >> reporter: dr. robert latham has examined 19 people who received injections. he saw three new meningitis cases today. the nashville clinics received 2,000 potentially contaminated vials fr

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is investigating how the vials were contapped. how might they have been contamentd? what are the possibilities? >> reporter: scott, that medication is supposed to be prepared nay sterile environment but if there's a breakdown in the system there could be contamination in the fungus. it's common in soil, decomposing leaves and even floating in the air. >> pelley: if the fungus is everywhere, as you describe it, why is it so dangerous in this case? >> reporter: in somebody with a normal immune system the lungs filter it out. when you inject it directly into the spine, that's like a straight highway to the brain. >> pelley: jon, thank you very much. it has been more than three weeks since that deadly terrorist attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. today, the will bean government finally allowed a team of f.b.i. agents to see the crime scene. four americans were killed in that attack, of course, including ambassador chris stephens. the agents, with a u.s. military escort, spent 12 hours at the consulate, though much of the evidence has already been compromised

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. >> whether each and every vial was contaminated is not known, but certainly now we have an increasing number of patients who are being reported as having this fungal meningitis. >> reporter: dr. william schaffner has been tracking the outbreak at the vanderbilt university hospital in nashville. the sooner they find the infected, the better the odds of recovery. symptoms include fever, headache stiff neck and confusion. 76 facilities in 23 states received the contaminated product which was shipped from the new england compounding center. injections may have started as early as may 21. the centers for disease control believes the majority will not get sick. dr. schaffner agrees. >> if there's a bit of a silver lining in this dark cloud it's that apparently the attack rate, the proportion of people actually developing an infection, is very small. it's really about 1% or less. >> the headaches were bad, very bad. >> reporter: robert russell's wife janet has been fighting meningitis in an intensive care unit for a month shechlt developed a severe headache after getting an injection for chr

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