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http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/10/health/north-carolina-creutzfeldt-jakob/
Officials are notifying 18 neurosurgery patients that they may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a serious and incurable neurological disorder at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The hospital confirmed that on January 18, an operation was performed on a patient with CJD symptoms who later tested positive for the illness. Even though the surgical instruments were sterilized by standard hospital procedures, they should have gone through enhanced sterilization procedures used when there are confirmed or suspected cases of CJD.
Officials are notifying 18 neurosurgery patients that they may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a serious and incurable neurological disorder at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The hospital confirmed that on January 18, an operation was performed on a patient with CJD symptoms who later tested positive for the illness. Even though the surgical instruments were sterilized by standard hospital procedures, they should have gone through enhanced sterilization procedures used when there are confirmed or suspected cases of CJD.
