Recently there seems to have been an incident in which several patients contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease from contaminated surgical equipment. http://www.medpagetoday.com/...
“Surgical instruments used on a patient later given a tentative diagnosis of sporadic CJD were subsequently used in at least eight other patients after ordinary sterilization which is not adequate to reliably eliminate the prion proteins responsible for CJD.”
What is CJD? Why would I be digging out my class research paper of 7 years ago on Mad Cow Disease to discuss CJD.
I have updated the material, but not much has changed since the paper was originally written. I feel sure it is not for lack of medical research but the PrP nut is a hard one to crack, much less to find a treatment for, much, much less find a cure.
Step over the sleeping kitties.