{"id":125289,"date":"2017-10-20T03:44:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T07:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=125289"},"modified":"2017-10-20T03:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T07:44:40","slug":"closing-arguments-set-in-deadly-meningitis-outbreak-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/20\/closing-arguments-set-in-deadly-meningitis-outbreak-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing arguments set in deadly meningitis outbreak trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_125291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125291\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/640px-Meningitis_Histopathology.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125291\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/640px-Meningitis_Histopathology.jpg\" alt=\"Histopathology of bacterial meningitis: autopsy case of a person with pneumococcal meningitis showing inflammatory infiltrates of the pia mater consisting of neutrophil granulocytes (inset, higher magnification). (Photo By Marvin 101 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/640px-Meningitis_Histopathology.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/640px-Meningitis_Histopathology-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Histopathology of bacterial meningitis: autopsy case of a person with pneumococcal meningitis showing inflammatory infiltrates of the pia mater consisting of neutrophil granulocytes (inset, higher magnification). (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=12352584\">Photo By Marvin 101 &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BOSTON &#8212; Attorneys are preparing to make their closing arguments in the case of a Massachusetts pharmacist charged with second-degree murder in a deadly meningitis outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Closing arguments in Glenn Chin&#8217;s trial are expected Friday in Boston&#8217;s federal courthouse. Chin faces second-degree murder, mail fraud and other charges under federal racketeering law.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 outbreak that killed 76 people and sickened hundreds of others was traced to contaminated steroid injections made by the now-closed New England Compounding Center. Chin ran the clean rooms where the drugs were made.<\/p>\n<p>Chin&#8217;s attorneys have tried to place the blame on the pharmacy&#8217;s co-founder, Barry Cadden.<\/p>\n<p>Cadden was sentenced in June to nine years in prison after being acquitted of second-degree murder charges but convicted on conspiracy and fraud charges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8212; Attorneys are preparing to make their closing arguments in the case of a Massachusetts pharmacist charged with second-degree &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":125291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[28686,28685,28683,28684],"class_list":["post-125289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-barry-cadden","tag-glenn-chin","tag-massachusetts-pharmacist","tag-meningitis-outbreak","mauthors-alanna-durkin-richer","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}