A patient who received neurosurgery at CMC is suspected to have died from sporadic CJD, a form of the disease that occurs spontaneously and has no known cause, which is distinct from variant CJD, also called “mad cow disease.”
Read the full story on the possible Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease exposure in Becker’s Hospital Review.
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