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WBFF Fox 45 :: 2nd Mass. Co. Shut Down as Precaution in Deadly Meningitis Outbreak
A 2nd Massachusetts pharmacy is shut down as a precaution in the Meningitis outbreak. Ameridose has agreed to voluntarily shut down while state and federal regulators investigate. That's because the same person who owns the New England Compounding Center where the tainted shots originated also owns Ameridose. Both are in Massachusetts. That state's Department of Health addressed the growing health crisis this evening.

"Ameridose, LLC proactively and voluntarily agreed to cease all manufacturing and compounding operations immediately," says Director of Health Care Safety and Quality for the Department of Public Health's Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo. "Ameridose and its partnering distributor Alanis Pharmaceuticals will cease distribution of all product manufactured and compounded by that company, or any of the companies under shared ownership for a time delineated period."

At this point, Massachusetts health officials say they have not found mold-tainted steroid injections at the 2nd pharmacy, but they are investigating. We'll have CONTINUING COVERAGE of the Meningitis outbreak. You'll get any overnight developments on TENNESSEE MORNINGS. You can stay up to date by going to Fox17.com and clicking on MENINGITIS in the HOT TOPICS section, or Facebook.com/FoxNashville.
2nd Mass. Co. Shut Down as Precaution in Deadly Meningitis Outbreak

Wednesday, October 10 2012, 10:28 PM CDT

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Miss. chooses new firm to run Woodville prison
May 18, 2013 20:50 GMT

WOODVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi officials have picked a new company to run the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility.

Utah-based Management and Training Corp. announced Friday that the Mississippi Department of Corrections has chosen it to run the 1,000-bed prison starting July 1, the Natchez Democrat reports (http://bit.ly/10MvOGv).

Corrections Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tenn., had run the prison since 1998. MTC says it will keep "the vast majority" of employees.

MTC will get a five-year contract to run the prison with two one-year options. Last year, officials chose MTC to take over East Mississippi Correctional Facility, the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility and the Marshall County Correctional Facility from the GEO Group. MTC won 10-year contracts for each.

CCA still runs the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility and the Adams County Correctional Center in Mississippi.

Information from: The Natchez Democrat, http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/

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