A patient constantly wonders if she obtained Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease from surgical equipment. The solution to her daily worry? A lawsuit:
“There are no cases in the medical literature of CJD having been transmitted following the routine measures of surgical instrument sterilization that we employed,” said Sauder said.
If any of the patients are infected, it could take years before the symptoms, including rapidly progressing dementia, are detected. There are no tests for the disease.
Price does not yet know if she has the disease, but wonders daily whether she will develop it, Grant said.
