NEW : CDC : As many as 13,000 people may have used medicine . No new exposures have occurred in recent weeks , Tennesse official says . Dr. William Schaffner , chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center , told CNN that fungal infections are not usually mild . Some have contracted meningitis after receiving contaminated steroid injections . Several people have died of this rare , noncontagious form of the disease .
NEW : CDC : As many as 13,000 people may have used medicine . No new exposures have occurred in recent weeks , Tennesse official says . Some have contracted meningitis after receiving contaminated steroid injections . Several people have died of this rare , noncontagious form of the disease .