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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)  Twenty-five Rhode Island health-care providers have been asked to contact patients who received injected medications from the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a national outbreak of fungal meningitis.

    

Those other drugs have not been linked to ill- nesses. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that because of the concerns about the pharmacy's sterility, out of an abundance of caution, patients who received these products should be alerted to the potential risk of infection.

A spokeswoman says the Rhode Island Department of Health contacted 25 providers to make sure they had seen the alert from the FDA.

Here is a link to the FDA's website with a list of customers of the Massachusetts pharmacy: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DrugSafety/FungalMeningitis/UCM325466.pdf .