Public health officials, physicians, and patients are grappling with many challenges in the current national meningitis outbreak: Fungal meningitis is usually exceedingly difficult to diagnose, and the treatment is risky and arduous. Paul Sax, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and James P. Rathmell, the Henry Knowles Beecher Professor of Anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital, are quoted.

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