Pharmacist gets up to 15 years in prison for meningitis outbreak deaths

A Massachusetts pharmacist has been sentenced in Michigan to 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison for his role in a 2012 national meningitis outbreak that killed dozens of people.

• Oct 12, 2024

Pharmacist charged in U.S. meningitis outbreak agrees to no contest plea in Michigan case

Prosecutors in Michigan have struck a deal with a pharmacist who is blamed for deaths from a national meningitis outbreak in 2012.

• Aug 16, 2024

Pharmacist going to trial in 2012 Michigan fungal meningitis outbreak case

Glenn Chin, 56, of Canton, Massachusetts, will appear in court on Nov. 4, 2024, according to the Michigan Attorney General's office. He is charged with 11 counts of second-degree murder.

• May 20, 2024

Mass. man at center of deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak pleads to manslaughter in Michigan

Barry Cadden​, the Massachusetts man at the center of a deadly national meningitis outbreak in 2012​, pleaded no contest to 11 counts of involuntary manslaughter in Michigan.

• Mar 5, 2024

Deadly germ behind infant formula shortage joins CDC watchlist of bad bugs

Federal health officials will start formally tracking infections caused by the rare but potentially deadly germ that sickened babies and triggered a nationwide shortage of infant formula last year.

• Jun 29, 2023

Jeff Beck, guitarist for the Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group, dies at 78

Beck died Tuesday after "suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis," his representatives said in a statement released Wednesday.

• Jan 11, 2023

Barry Cadden among 2 to stand trial in Michigan for deadly fungal meningitis outbreak

Attorney General Dana Nessel announced 2 men have been charged for a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 11 people in Michigan will stand trial in Livingston County.

• Nov 18, 2022