(St. Paul, MN)  --  The Massachusetts pharmacy that produced the steroid linked to a nationwide meningitis outbreak was *not* licensed to distribute the drug in Minnesota -- but officials are not saying whether New England Compounding Center violated its license, and they say data privacy laws prevent them from even saying whether they're investigating.  Cody Wiberg (WHY-berg), director of the state Board of Pharmacy, says the East Coast company under its state license is allowed to dispense prescriptions written out for individual patients, or in some cases can send the prescription to the office of the health care provider if it's to be used there.  Eleven people nationwide are dead as a result of the fungal meningitis outbreak and more than 100 have been sickened throughout the US, including three women in Minnesota.