UW Hospital says the surgical tools exposed to a woman who died from the fatal brain disease CJD are still going to be used and present virtually no safety hazard.
“We’re doing exactly what the CDC and World Health Organizations recommended for the past 30 years,” said Dr. Carl Getto, UW Hospital’s senior vice president for medical affairs.
Dr. Getto says the risk any new patient would contract CJD from the surgical instruments is less than 1 in 1,000,000.