Twelve South Jersey residents now appear to have been sickened by contaminated steroid medication that has caused 247 illnesses and 19 deaths, state and federal officials said Wednesday.
The local cases - half women and half men, ages 26 to 77, all recovering - received epidural injections for back pain between July 12 and Sept. 26, the day the medication was recalled, at the only three locations in the Philadelphia region that received shipments: Premier Orthopaedic Associates and South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center, both in Vineland, and SJH Elmer Hospital in Elmer.
