No reason to worry: that's the message to patients from doctors at Allegheny Pain Management in Altoona. The facility was one of two in Pennsylvania to receive medication from a company that produced a batch of steroids contaminated with meningitis.

Doctors at Allegheny Pain Management said they've received hundreds of calls the past few days from patients who received injections of that medication. While the clinic said it did receive the drug from the same company who produced the contaminated batches it said those vials sat on the shelves and were never even opened.

The steroid methylprednisolone is used to treat patients with pain.

"These injections are used basically for chronic back and neck pain, mainly for people who have herniated discs," said Dr. Michael Drass.

But now a national outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to a contaminated batch of the steroid produced by New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts.

"We did have recalled medication sent here and we returned it to New England Compounding," said Drass.

The clinic received 50 vials of the medication, three days before it was recalled on Sept. 27, but Drass said those vials sat on the shelves and were never used to treat any patients.

"As a precaution we pulled all of their medications off of the shelf," said Drass. "Even medication that's not implicated in this recall."

There have been no reported meningitis cases in Pennsylvania and while the contaminated medication has been taken out of circulation it's already claimed five lives and sickened 35 others across the nation.

"Nothing like this has ever happened to us," said Drass. "I've been involved in pain management for 15 years now and I've never seen or heard of anything like this in the U.S. ever. It's scary."

Doctors at Allegheny Pain Management said they have no reason to believe anyone was infected. But anyone who comes down with symptoms of meningitis, like a fever, severe headache or numbness, should seek medical treatment immediately.