The five people who became ill traveled to Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, for surgical procedures that included the use of an epidural, an anesthetic injected near the spinal column…
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — State and federal health officials are warning US residents to cancel planned surgeries in a Mexico border city after five people from Texas who got procedures there came back and developed suspected cases of fungal meningitis.
Meningitis is the swelling of the protective covering of the brain and spinal cord and should be treated urgently. US and Mexican authorities are attempting to find the source of the infection, whether the cases are linked and if there are other cases, the Texas health department said. Patients in the Texas cases began showing symptoms three days to six weeks after surgery in Matamoros.
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