PRO/EDR> Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – USA: (NH) transmission risk

CJD — Worldwide/Unknown
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Catholic Medical Center (CMC), and the Manchester Health Department (MHD) announce that the test results on a patient who was treated at CMC and who was believed to have had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) have come back positive from the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center. The test results were reported to DHHS and CMC earlier today [20 Sep 2013].
Earlier this month [September 2013], CMC notified 8