Officials are warning U.S. residents to cancel planned surgeries in a Mexico border city after five people from Texas who got procedures returned and developed suspected cases of fungal meningitis. One of them died.
FILE - Motorists pay toll at Gateway International Bridge, March 6, 2023, in Brownsville, Texas, to cross into Matamoros, Mexico. Texas and federal health officials are warning U.S. residents to cancel planned surgeries in Matamoros after five people from Texas who got procedures there came back and developed suspected cases of fungal meningitis. One of them died, officials said Tuesday, May 16.
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, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Tuesday. Four remain hospitalized, and one of them later died.The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel advisory Tuesday for U.S. residents seeking medical care in Matamoros.
U.S. 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.
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