If you take anabolic steroids, you don’t face any risk linked with fungal meningitis

More than 500 individuals were contaminated with fungal meningitis after they had administered Methylprednisolone injections produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC). Over 30 individuals died from this condition. Nobody must have doubted that the contamination was a great tragedy for several individuals and their families. Nonetheless, 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 illness fungal meningitis.
Lately the Bay County Sheriff’s Office conducted an investigation related to illicit manufacture of anabolic steroids. It learnt that anabolic steroids were manufactured by an underground lab in unsterile conditions. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office stated that they conducted the investigation in order to prevent contamination with fungal meningitis in future. According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, if someone takes anabolic steroids produced in unsterile conditions, he/she has a risk to get fungal meningitis.
In fact, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office displayed own ignorance related to anabolic steroids and risks connected with contamination with fungal meningitis. An individual may get fungal meningitis, if he/she uses drugs that 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. When it comes to anabolic steroids, they are not injected into the central nervous system. They are chiefly applied into muscles. That’s why it is impossible to get contaminated with fungal meningitis while using anabolic steroids. If you apply anabolic steroids which are produced in unsterile conditions, you may get certain adverse reactions. But you will never get fungal meningitis while taking anabolic steroids for medical or even for athletic purposes.  
Thus, the fungal meningitis outbreak caused by usage 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.