Mount Pleasant Clinic Linked to Meningitis Outbreak

A Mount Pleasant clinic has been identified by state and national health groups as having given steroid injections linked to a potentially deadly meningitis outbreak.

InterveneMD called and wrote to 189 individuals to inform them that they may have been administered the tainted injections, ABC News 4 reports.

No local patient has show symptoms, the clinic wrote, but across the country 47 individuals have contracted the rare bacterial meningitis linked to the injections.

Until contacted by DHEC on Sept. 21, doctors at InterveneMD had no reason to suspect medication they had received from any supplier, according to a statement posted on ABC News 4. Federal authorities have recalled all the injections manufactured by New England Compound Center, the believed source of the injections.

Anyone administered a steroid injection to the back for pain relief since July 2012, should contact the clinic, though the medical practice has reached most impacted persons, according to WCBD-TV.