Doctors and hospital officials from Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina are having to notify 18 patients who had neuron surgery that they may have been exposed to an incurable Neurological disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke , CJD effects about one in every one million people yearly worldwide. The hospital said on January 18 there was an operation on a patient with CJD symptoms who ended up later testing positive for it. The surgical tools were sterilized with standard procedure but they should have gone through enhanced sterilization.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/10/health/north-carolina-creutzfeldt-jakob/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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