MADISON (WKOW) – Some UW Hospital patients may have been exposed to a rare but deadly brain disorder.
UW Hospital officials have told 53 patients they have an extremely low risk of contracting a rare deadly brain disorder after being operated on with contaminated surgical instruments.
The instruments were used on a woman who had surgery on June 11th and died Tuesday from a brain disorder, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
The hospital got the diagnosis of the fatal disease just this past Monday.