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dixiegrrrrl

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Sat Sep 7, 2013, 07:16 PM Sep 2013

15 patients in 3 states possibly exposed to fatal brain disease

Fifteen people in three states now have been warned that they may have been exposed to a rare and fatal brain disease through potentially contaminated surgical equipment, health officials said Friday.

In addition to eight patients in New Hampshire, five in Massachusetts and two in Connecticut have received the news that they may have shared tainted equipment with a patient who died from apparent Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, an invariably fatal brain disorder, those states confirmed.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/15-patients-3-states-possibly-exposed-fatal-brain-disease-8C11097250?ocid=twitter


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