Possibly exposed to Creutzfeldt-

[Guest guest]

I haven't posted in this group in years, and I know this is not about LBD, but I

thought it might help someone, sometime, to be aware of this. Let's hope the

warning is only that, and that no one becomes a C-J victim due to it.

<http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2012/07/31/hospital-warns-patients-they-may-have-\

been-exposed-to-fatal-brain-disease/>

" COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Eleven patients who had brain surgery at a Greenville

hospital are being warned they might have been exposed to a rare, fatal brain

disease.

A patient who had surgery in February at the Greenville Hospital System was

later diagnosed with Creutzfeldt- disease, potentially exposing the 11

people who had surgery afterward, the hospital said Tuesday.

Workers sterilized the instruments after every surgery, but the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention recommends additional cleaning if

Creutzfeldt- "

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