18 North Carolina patients may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)

[Emily]

Maybe enhanced sterilization should be done on all instruments used in neurosurgery.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/11/us-usa-braindisease-northcarolina-idUSBREA1A02S20140211

18 North Carolina patients may have been exposed to rare brain disease

By Colleen Jenkins and Marina Lopes

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C./NEW YORK Mon Feb 10, 2014 9:53pm EST

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In North Carolina, the surgical instruments were sterilized using standard hospital procedures but were not subjected to the enhanced sterilization procedures necessary on instruments used in confirmed or suspected cases of CJD, the hospital statement said.

There are no treatments for the disease, which affects about 300 Americans each year, it said.

Every year, one in a million people around the world is diagnosed with the disease, which can be contracted through organ transplants or operations, said Florence Kranitz, president of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation.

 

[Giuseppe]

Re: 18 North Carolina patients may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)

This is the SPORADIC type of CJD, unrelated to the so-called ''mad-cow disease'', linked to a mutated prion protein from infected cattle.

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[Source: CNN, full page: (LINK).]


North Carolina hospital notifies patients of possible sporadic-CJD exposure

Officials from a North Carolina hospital are notifying 18 neurosurgery patients that they might have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a serious and incurable neurological disorder.

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