CJD — Worldwide/Unknown
The NHS [UK National Health Service] has failed to use an effective method of sterilising surgical instruments contaminated with the human form of “mad cow” disease because it did not fit in with its established washing procedures, a leading specialist in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) claimed yesterday [26 Nov 2013]. The result is that hundreds of people have had their lives blighted by surgery performed with instruments possibly contaminated with the prion protein responsible for
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