Federal officials say more than 200 patients could be at risk of fungal meningitis after having surgical procedures at clinics in a Mexico border city.
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Officials have identified and closed two clinics linked to the outbreak, River Side Surgical Center and Clinica K-3. The CDC is working with more than two dozen state and local health departments to contact people with potential exposure and urge them to go to their nearest medical facility for testing. Meningitis testing includes an MRI and a lumbar puncture, also called a spinal tap.to U.S. residents to cancel surgeries in Matamoros, saying five people from Texas who had procedures there developed suspected cases of fungal meningitis. One of them died.
Patients in the Texas cases started showing symptoms three days to six weeks after surgery in Matamoros.
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