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The University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics has warned 53 patients that they have an "extremely small" risk of contracting a rare, fatal brain disorder because of the instruments that were used in their operations. The same instruments were used in a June 11 surgery on a woman in her 50s who died Tuesday of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The equipment wasn't sequestered until a week after the woman's brain tissue was sent for testing for the disease.
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Froedtert Hospital is alerting about 100 people who had surgery this week that a patient who had an operation late Monday might have a rare, fatal brain disease that could have been spread through surgical instruments to other patients, hospital officials said Thursday. The hospital in Wauwatosa closed its operating rooms and canceled scheduled procedures Thursday after receiving results of a preliminary test that indicated the patient might have Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease, part of the family of so-called prion diseases. These fatal brain disorders include mad cow disease and chronic wasting disease, which has infected Wisconsin deer.
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Various facts about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), better known as the mad cow disease, are presented. The disease apparently came from cattle feed derived from the carcasses of infected animals. After the disease was linked to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the World Health Organization ordered the holding of meetings to determine the effects and risk factors for spongiform encephalopathies, particularly BSE.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Scientists have yet to document a single U.S. case of someone getting the human version of mad cow disease from contaminated beef. Then again, they might not be looking hard enough. Some experts say scientists should be looking more closely at cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - a brain-destroying disorder that kills hundreds of Americans each year - to see whether some of these deaths were, in fact, caused by beef from cattle infected with mad cow disease.
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, 74, of Maytown has gone to be with her Lord and Savior on Wednesday, January 26, 2011. JoAnn fought a valiant six- month battle with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a very rare disease whose odds of infection are one in a million, but then JoAnn was a "one in a million" wife, mother and grandmother to her family. The beloved wife of E. Marlin Miller, together they shared 55 years of marriage. She was also the devoted mother of Thomas (Lisa) Miller of Lancaster, Judy (A.J.) Firestone of Mercersburg, Susan (Michael) Sager of Marietta and Jerry Miller of Maytown. Her daily presence will be truly missed by her grandchildren, Kristin, Andrew and Ryan Miller, A. J. and Sarah Firestone, Matthew (Brenna Meixner) Sager, Anna (John) King, Nathan, Jonathan, and David Sager and Amanda (Dan...
