Three of the deaths are people who had cataract surgery... Oddly enough.
There was a reported case of CJD in a patient who had a corneal transplant from an infected person.
maybe prion tainted tools at the cataract clinic.
Routine sterilization is not good enough to stop prion spread diseases.
“Three of the deaths are people who had cataract surgery... Oddly enough.”
Freaking great, I’m doing that next month. If I make it that long!
Poorly sterilized equipment...or didnt use disposable equipment...should be a carrier somewhere in the mix..could be any prion disease involved...scary...
jerod :"Three of the deaths are people who had cataract surgery... Oddly enough."
Oddly enough is true; also in the case of many viral diseases we are finding mucous membranes as reservoirs of viral infection,
and many people forget that the eyes are just one of several 'privileged places' which happen to be mucous membranes.
The fact that the progressive disease symptoms happen to be related to other prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (in common vernacular:"Mad Cow disease").
"..the disease is not genetic and could be contracted from water, food or air..."
"Scientists are currently looking into the possibility that this is a new variant of a prion disease — or a new disease entirely."
"These are patients who have clinical features that correspond to prion diseases, of which Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is one,"
but show no evidence of having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or any other form of prion disease.."
At present the disease seems to remain in the northeast and southeast regions of the Acadian peninsula of New Brunswick, generally near Moncton, Ca.
The source of this recent newly identified disease remains unknown.