The musician brought his hard-hitting style to the band, which helped lay the foundation of American punk rock and is set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
The clinics’ owner, Dr. Jihad Mustapha, who called himself the “leg saver” but whose procedures sometimes preceded amputations, was a focus of a Times investigation last year.
His imprisonment for a minor marijuana offense became a cause célèbre. He was released after John Lennon and Yoko Ono sang about him at a protest rally.
The case adds another worrying wrinkle to a global outbreak that has devastated bird and marine mammal populations, and recently appeared in cattle herds.