HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A funeral home in Livingston County says a 67-year-old woman died from a stroke caused by the fungal meningitis outbreak.
Dennis Gaines, director of MacDonald's Funeral Home in Howell, says Lilian Cary died on Sept. 30. The Howell woman had been treated with a steroid injection at a clinic in Brighton.
The steroid was made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts and shipped to at least four Michigan clinics. Michigan has reported at least 20 meningitis cases, including two deaths.
A wake is being held Monday for Cary, followed by a memorial service Tuesday. She was a native of Stoke-on-Trent, England, and moved to the U.S. in 1965. A message seeking comment from her family was not immediately returned.
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