Contamination with fungal meningitis resulted from application of Methylprednisolone Acetate

Over 500 individuals were contaminated with fungal meningitis after they had administered Methylprednisolone injections produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC). Over 30 persons died from this condition. No one must have doubted that the contamination was a great tragedy for some persons and their families. Nevertheless, anti-doping organizations tried to benefit from the case. What did they do? They started blaming anabolic steroids. It was affirmed by the media that anabolic steroids could cause the fatal condition fungal meningitis.
Lately the Bay County Sheriff’s Office conducted an investigation connected with illegal manufacture of anabolic steroids. It saw that anabolic steroids were manufactured by an underground lab in unsterile conditions. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office claimed that they conducted the investigation for prevention of contamination with fungal meningitis in future. According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, if one takes anabolic steroids produced in unsterile conditions, he/she may be contaminated with fungal meningitis.
Actually, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office manifested own ignorance linked with anabolic steroids and risks connected with contamination with fungal meningitis. An individual may get fungal meningitis, if he/she applies medicines which are injected directly into the central nervous system. Methylprednisolone Acetate injections are applied into the central nervous system. That’s why these contaminated corticosteroids led to the fungal meningitis outbreak. As for anabolic steroids, they are not injected into the central nervous system. They are chiefly introduced into muscles. That’s why it is impossible to get contaminated with fungal meningitis while applying anabolic steroids. If you administer anabolic steroids that are manufactured in unsterile conditions, you may experience certain negative results. But you will never face fungal meningitis while applying anabolic steroids for therapeutic or even for athletic purposes.  
So, the fungal meningitis outbreak resulted from application of contaminated Methylprednisolone Acetate injections turned out to be just a condition to demonize anabolic steroids.  Notice, please: Methylprednisolone Acetate is not an anabolic steroid. It is a corticosteroid.