Deadly meningitis outbreak in U.S. Pictures An outbreak of a rare but deadly form of fungal meningitis has infected 35 people in six states, killing five. The outbreak is tied to three lots of steroid injections, mostly used for relieving back pain. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the tainted injections manufactured by the New England Compounding Center have been shipped to 75 facilities in 23 states. But because the company is licensed in all 50 states, the CDC said its possible contaminated injections may be in other areas. In this image, Dr. Robert Latham, chief of medicine at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., where more than 600 patients received steroid injections, is interviewed on Oct. 4, 2012, in Nashville. Credit: Mark Humphrey