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Showing posts with label Metaphysics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metaphysics. Show all posts

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Omg, Meningitis!



When I heard the news of a meningitis outbreak last week, my initial thought was "how?". How exactly does a steroid for back pain give people meningitis? How does meningitis get into a steroid?


How does a pharmaceutical company create, release, sell, and ship out a steroid with meningitis inside, and not know? How do medical facilities accept and administer said steroid without knowing for sure what's inside?

That ball got dropped about four times. First, where ever that particular steroid was made. I don't know much about chemistry and making medicine, but I'd guess that at some point in the lab, while you're blending compounds or whatever you should be able to identify bacteria that looks deadly.