re: Washington Regional O.R. shutdown due to Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease found

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.