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New Hampshire Patient Did Die of Creutzfeltd-Jakob Disease — NBC News

September 5, 2013 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

REPORT: “New Hampshire patient likely died of rare brain disease” — Click here to read this article by the Associated Press, dated Sept. 5, 2013. UPDATED: NBC News reported on…

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Risk of Transmission of Creutzfeltd-Jakob Disease by Contaminated Surgical Instruments

April 1, 2013 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

April 1, 2013 (updated, February, 2015) — In October, 2000, a hospital reported that last spring as many as 8 patients may have been infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or “CJD,”…

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