Links between fungal meningitis and usage of steroids

Over 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 condition. No one must have doubted that the contamination was a great tragedy for some persons and their families. Nevertheless, anti-doping organizations put efforts to benefit from the situation. What did they do? They began to demonize 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 connected with illicit manufacture of anabolic steroids. It saw that anabolic steroids were produced by certain underground lab in unsterile conditions. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office reported that they conducted the investigation in order to prevent contamination with fungal meningitis in future. According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, if one administers anabolic steroids manufactured in unsterile conditions, he/she may be contaminated with fungal meningitis.
In fact, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office showed own ignorance connected with anabolic steroids and risks related to contamination with fungal meningitis. A person may face fungal meningitis, if he/she administers medications which are injected directly into the central nervous system. Methylprednisolone Acetate injections are introduced 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 mainly injected into muscles. That’s why it is impossible to be contaminated with fungal meningitis while injecting anabolic steroids. If you administer anabolic steroids which are manufactured in unsterile conditions, you may suffer from some additional health problems. But you will never get fungal meningitis while administering anabolic steroids for therapeutic or even for athletic purposes.  
So, the fungal meningitis outbreak caused by administration of contaminated Methylprednisolone Acetate injections turned out to be just a condition to blame anabolic steroids.  Note, please: Methylprednisolone Acetate is not an anabolic steroid. It is a corticosteroid.