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Hospital Warns Patients They May Have Been Exposed To Rare, Fatal Brain Disease


COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Eleven patients who had brain surgery at a Greenville hospital are being warned they might have been exposed to a rare, fatal brain disease.

A patient who had surgery in February at the Greenville Hospital System was later diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, potentially exposing the 11 people who had surgery afterward, the hospital said Tuesday.

http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2012/07/31/hospital-warns-patients-they-may-have-been-exposed-to-fatal-brain-disease/




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