How heartbreaking. My prayers are with those whose lives were touched by Ms. Vinson.

Thanks.

ETA: I am saddened that she passed away. :(

OMG, my prayers are with her family and friends.

"passed through surgery" "tainted medical instrument" :mad::mad::mad:

Condolences to Soror Aretha's family and friends. This is so sad. :( :(

Thanks for this info.

This is very sad.

I know. That's really scary.

Wow!

Very sad!

That poor Mama. My prayers are with her family.

This deeply saddens and sickens me. I'll lift up her loved ones in prayer.

It's horrible to hear things of this nature happening to anyone. I'll be keeping the family in my prayers.


BTW: Wondering if this is the first case of someone dying from this in the U.S.? I know there have been cases of deaths in Eastern countries.....China, UK, and others.

It's stated in the article.

What I want to know is what kind of tools were being used in her surgery b/c this disease is so rare, that I had once read that there was only 1 other case in U.S.

There have been three other cases in the US, but the victims contracted the disease outside of the county--two in the U.K., one in Saudi Arabia.

My concern is not what kind of tools (it was gastro bypass, so I got a pretty good idea,) but how in the heck did an instrument get contaminated???