Cases of meningitis linked to steroid injections in the U.S. as of October 2013, by state

Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 23, 2013

This statistic represents the number of cases of meningitis linked to steroid injections in the United States, sorted by state, as of October 23, 2013. At this point, most meningitis cases linked with a paraspinal/spinal infection were reported for Tennessee with a total number of 57 cases.

Number of meningitis cases linked to steroid injections by U.S. state, as of October 2013*

Characteristic	Meningitis only	Meningitis + paraspinal/spinal infection
Florida	22	1
Georgia	1	0
Idaho	1	0
Illinois	2	0
Indiana	30	17
Maryland	23	1
Michigan	23	46
Minnesota	10	0
New Hampshire	9	0
New Jersey	30	11
North Carolina	1	3
Ohio	12	3
Pennsylvania	1	0
Rhode Island	1	1
South Carolina	2	0
Tennessee	22	57
Texas	2	0
Virginia	41	9
West Virginia	0	2

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October 2013

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United States

Survey time period

As of October 23, 2013

Supplementary notes

* Case counts by state are based on the state where the procedure was performed, not the state of residence.
Some patients with meningitis had other infections diagnosed in addition; to date, all of these other infections have been paraspinal/spinal infections. The patient reported to have a peripheral joint infection and a spinal/paraspinal infection had both a joint injection and a spinal/paraspinal injection.

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