BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The state Health Department says six North Dakota pharmacies or clinics have received products from a Massachusetts company associated with a national meningitis
outbreak.
     The department has informed facilities in Williston, Fargo and Grand Forks of new federal recommendations on New England Compounding Co. products.
     Only three lots of medications, none of which were shipped to
North Dakota, were originally implicated in the outbreak. But the
Health Department says additional cases of meningitis reported in
other states indicate other medications may also be causing
meningitis.
     The Health Department is endorsing federal recommendations that
health-care providers notify any patients who may have received any
injectable or ophthalmic medication produced or purchased on or
after May 21, and advise them to seek care if they develop symptoms
of meningitis or joint infection.