BOSTON, MA (WKZO AM/FM) – Glenn Chin has been given 8 years in prison for his role in one of the worst public health crisis in modern medicine, 2012’s meningitis outbreak, which hit Michigan harder than any other state.
The bacteria was traced back to a Massachusetts lab that shipped injectable steroids used to relieve back pain. Chinn was the pharmacist who oversaw production, and took the short cuts that led to the contamination.
25 people died nationally, 19 of them in Michigan, some of them from our area.
260 people in the state became ill and many of them have never fully recovered.
The company’s CEO, Barry Cadden has already begun serving a 9-year sentence.
