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Old 04-11-2008, 02:56 AM
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Originally Posted by 5Knowledge1913 View Post
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???
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