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• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Diagnosis Causes Arkansas Hospital to Shut Down All Operating Rooms

  March 17, 2016

  Irvin Jackson

  An Arkansas hospital has shut down its operating rooms after a patient was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

• North Carolina Hospital Exposed Patients to Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease

  February 12, 2014

  Irvin Jackson

  A North Carolina hospital has warned some patients that they may have been exposed to a lethal brain infection after being operated on with surgical instruments that were not properly sterilized.

• Hospital Brain Infection Risk After Surgery May Be Unavoidable: Report

  September 16, 2013

  Martha Garcia

  Exposure to a deadly brain-eating disease may be unavoidable in some cases, due to its resistance to sterilization techniques.

• Rented Medtronic Surgical Kit Linked to Brain Infection Risk in NH, Mass.

  September 9, 2013

  Irvin Jackson

  More patients may have been exposed to a deadly brain infection due to tainted Medtronic surgical tools.

• New Hampshire Hospital Brain Disease Linked to Tainted Surgical Tools

  September 5, 2013

  Irvin Jackson

  New Hampshire health experts warn that some patients may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) due to tainted surgical instruments.

• South Carolina Surgery Patients May Have Been Exposed to Brain Disease

  August 1, 2012

  Martha Garcia

  Eleven people treated at a South Carolina hospital may have been exposed to a serious and potentially life threatening brain...