The United States is investigating two deaths linked to an outbreak of meningitis in plastic surgery performed in Mexico

The infections are linked to anesthesia used at the private centers K-3 Clinic and River Side Surgical Center Hospital in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state.

Twenty-three people, nine of whom live in the United States and 14 in Mexico, were infected in one outbreak of meningitis The Mexican government announced it had been detected in the border city of Matamoros this month.

The Ministry of Health said in a statement that of the fourteen cases that remain in Mexico, four are suspected and symptomatic; Five presented changes in cerebrospinal fluid results, and another five confirmed the presence of the fungus Fusarium solani, as found in other patients who were infected in an outbreak of meningitis in the northern state of Durango last November.