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Six patients who had neurosurgery at a Colorado hospital are under watch for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare, progressive and fatal brain disorder. 
 
The instruments used to operate on these six people had been used on a woman who was later found to have the disease. The infectious agent can conceivably survive sterilization although the risk is very small. 
 
To eliminate any such risk, some hospitals, quarantine instruments used on patients with unknown disorders until it is confirmed whether or not CJD was present. That was not done in these cases.

Six face remote risk of rare brain disease

Rocky Mountain News - 5/19/2006 2:53 AM

LITTLETON - A patient at Littleton Adventist Hospital died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in March, raising a very remote risk that six other patients who had surgeries using the same instruments could contract the rare and fatal neurological disease.
 
"It's an extraordinarily low risk," hospital CEO David Crane said Thursday, equating the chances of developing the disease from contact with the same surgical instruments as akin to "getting hit by lightning five times in the same day."
 
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