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Washington Regional O.R. shutdown due to Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease found
Posted on 3/16/16 at 6:34 pm
Posted on 3/16/16 at 6:34 pm
This is the human variant of Chronic Wasting Disease.
Contagious if you come in contact with brain or nervous system tissue or fluid.
very interested to learn how the patient became infected, it can be hereditary but most of the known cases are sporadic onset without many common factors.
Neither of Channel 5's reporter or anchor could pronounce the name correctly, nor did they give any information regarding the disease or how it could be spread.
Would be crazy if it's connected to the CWD found in the elk.
Contagious if you come in contact with brain or nervous system tissue or fluid.
very interested to learn how the patient became infected, it can be hereditary but most of the known cases are sporadic onset without many common factors.
Neither of Channel 5's reporter or anchor could pronounce the name correctly, nor did they give any information regarding the disease or how it could be spread.
Would be crazy if it's connected to the CWD found in the elk.
This post was edited on 3/16/16 at 10:14 pm
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Posted on 3/16/16 at 7:02 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
In fort smith?
Posted on 3/16/16 at 7:29 pm to pioneerbasketball
Fayetteville
WRMC = Washington Regional Medical Center
WRMC = Washington Regional Medical Center
Posted on 3/16/16 at 7:41 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
Not good. I'd hate to have had surgery there recently. Extremely low odds, but still scary.
This post was edited on 3/16/16 at 7:42 pm
Posted on 3/16/16 at 8:07 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
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very interested to learn how the patient became infected, it can be hereditary but most of the known cases are sporadic onset without many common factors.
I'm not of a very scientific mind, so the Wikipedia article confused me a little. From what I can tell, it's either genetic, or caused by someone consuming proteins from a person infected with it. It would make sense to me that some matter left from an improperly sterilized OR could transmit it to someone, so I feel pretty certain that's the case.
It also said that it may be possible to get it from blood transfusions.
This post was edited on 3/16/16 at 8:09 pm
Posted on 3/16/16 at 8:18 pm to VagueMessage
If this did get passed onto someone thanks to WRMC its a big black eye for a hospital that has spent a lot of money to upgrade its facilities and personnel of late.
Posted on 3/16/16 at 8:53 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
I saw WRMC and thought of White River Medical Center in Batesville.
Posted on 3/16/16 at 8:59 pm to VagueMessage
It's like mad cow disease. It's caused by prions, and can be transmitted the same way mad cow disease can be.
Posted on 3/16/16 at 9:01 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
Scary stuff.
Pigfeet will never leave his house again.
Pigfeet will never leave his house again.
Posted on 3/16/16 at 9:48 pm to Hog on the Hill
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I saw WRMC and thought of White River Medical Center in Batesville.
Same, I can tell you some horror stories of that hospital.
Posted on 3/16/16 at 10:19 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
That's cray cray.
Can't it be passed from cows to humans? There was a shitload of this in the UK a decade or so ago. Horrible stuff.
Most UK beef is banned elsewhere because of that outbreak.
Can't it be passed from cows to humans? There was a shitload of this in the UK a decade or so ago. Horrible stuff.
Most UK beef is banned elsewhere because of that outbreak.
Posted on 3/16/16 at 10:24 pm to wmr
They had a single case of this in my area several years ago.
No one else contracted it.
No one else contracted it.
This post was edited on 3/16/16 at 10:25 pm
Posted on 3/16/16 at 11:14 pm to piggilicious
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Pigfeet will never leave his house again.
Maybe he'll just stay south of the Bobby Hopper Tunnel.
We can dream.
Posted on 3/17/16 at 6:50 am to pioneerbasketball
quote:me too. for instance, I was born there
Same, I can tell you some horror stories of that hospital.
Posted on 3/17/16 at 7:36 am to piggilicious
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Pigfeet will never leave his house again.
I still have my bubble, bitch
Some scary shite though. Hope this hasn't passed to any other patients or staff up there.
Posted on 3/17/16 at 8:37 am to CtotheVrzrbck
Posted on 3/17/16 at 8:46 am to Hogwarts
Looks like the infected sample was from a patient that was in the operating room on Feb. 15 per article in the demgaz.
So there's been a month of procedures done since. If they sterilized everything properly it should be OK.
The state's head of infectious diseases mis-spoke in saying there hasn't been a case of contracting the disease in a hospital since 1976 which is incorrect. Just a couple years back in North Carolina or Virginia about 18 people caught it from a hospital that didn't properly sterilize equipment and was re-using surgery tools.
So there's been a month of procedures done since. If they sterilized everything properly it should be OK.
The state's head of infectious diseases mis-spoke in saying there hasn't been a case of contracting the disease in a hospital since 1976 which is incorrect. Just a couple years back in North Carolina or Virginia about 18 people caught it from a hospital that didn't properly sterilize equipment and was re-using surgery tools.
Posted on 3/17/16 at 4:47 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
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a hospital that didn't properly sterilize equipment and was re-using surgery tools.
Posted on 3/18/16 at 5:50 pm to Arksulli
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is pretty serious. Has WRMC had a history of problems or is this an isolated incident?
Posted on 3/19/16 at 9:01 am to BurtReynoldsMustache
isolated incident, they did a deep clean on everything and are back up and running.
It might the first time that facility has encountered CJD.
It might the first time that facility has encountered CJD.
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