North Carolina: Cover Up pf Exposure to Mad Cow Disease Exposed

Doctors in North Carolina are being forced to admit that 18 patients recently treated at an area medical facility may have been exposed to a rare, degenerative and incurable brain disease.
Medical instruments used by physicians at the Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC had not been properly sanitized, the facility’s president said during a press conference on Monday, and could have spread Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease to upwards of 18 patients.
Physicians at the medical center performed a neurosurgical procedure on a patient last month who has since been revealed to have the disorder, president Jeff Lindsay told reporters, but failed to use an enhanced sterilization process after to properly sanitize those tools.
Normal sterilization procedures were done on the instruments, Lindsay said, but physicians came short of conducting a more thorough process typically done to sanitize implements used when dealing with the deadly brain disease.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD, is a degenerative brain disorder that normally affects only one-in-one million people around the globe each year. According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, persons infected with CJD die usually within one year of onset of illness.
“While the CDC categorizes such risks as ‘very low,’ any risk of transmission is simply unacceptable,” Lindsay said, according to local television station WGHP.

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