Over 500 persons were contaminated with fungal meningitis while using steroids

More than 500 persons were contaminated with fungal meningitis after they had introduced Methylprednisolone injections produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC). More than 30 individuals died from this health problem. No one must have doubted that the contamination turned out to be a great tragedy for some individuals and their families. Nevertheless, anti-doping organizations put efforts to benefit from the situation. What did they do? They started blaming anabolic steroids. It was noticed by the media that anabolic steroids could cause the life-threatening illness fungal meningitis.
Lately the Bay County Sheriff’s Office conducted an investigation related to illicit manufacture of anabolic steroids. It saw that anabolic steroids were produced by an underground lab in unsterile conditions. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office claimed that they conducted the investigation in order to prevent contamination with fungal meningitis in future. According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, if anyone uses anabolic steroids manufactured in unsterile conditions, he/she may get fungal meningitis.
Actually, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office displayed own ignorance linked with anabolic steroids and risks linked with contamination with fungal meningitis. One may face fungal meningitis, if he/she takes medicines which are injected directly into the central nervous system. Methylprednisolone Acetate injections are administered into the central nervous system. That’s why these contaminated corticosteroids caused the fungal meningitis outbreak. When it comes to anabolic steroids, they are not injected into the central nervous system. They are mainly introduced into muscles. That’s why it is impossible to be contaminated with fungal meningitis while taking anabolic steroids. If you take anabolic steroids which are produced in unsterile conditions, you may get certain additional health problems. But you will never get contaminated with fungal meningitis while applying anabolic steroids for medical or even for athletic purposes.  
So, the fungal meningitis outbreak caused by administration of contaminated Methylprednisolone Acetate injections was just a condition to blame anabolic steroids.  Notice, please: Methylprednisolone Acetate is not an anabolic steroid. It is a corticosteroid.