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graywarrior

(59,440 posts) Thu Sep 5, 2013, 06:46 PM Sep 2013

Oh great, Mad Cow - first NH, now Cape Cod.

Cape Cod Hospital Patients May Have Been Exposed To Deadly Brain Disease

HYANNIS (CBS) – Five patients who were treated at Cape Cod Hospital may have been exposed to a deadly brain disease. The exposure, which is described as “low risk,” is limited to patients who were treated using the same device that was used at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/09/05/cape-cod-hospital-patients-exposed-to-deadly-brain-disease/

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Oh great, Mad Cow - first NH, now Cape Cod. (Original Post) graywarrior Sep 2013 OP

Could it possibly be what is known in other parts of the country as... madinmaryland Sep 2013 #1

I have that! graywarrior Sep 2013 #3

Very strangely worded story dixiegrrrrl Sep 2013 #2

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)

1. Could it possibly be what is known in other parts of the country as...

Reply to graywarrior (Original post)

Thu Sep 5, 2013, 06:52 PM

Sep 2013

Mad Duck Disease??

graywarrior

(59,440 posts)

3. I have that!

Reply to madinmaryland (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 5, 2013, 07:25 PM

Sep 2013

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

2. Very strangely worded story

Reply to graywarrior (Original post)

Thu Sep 5, 2013, 06:56 PM

Sep 2013

Apparenlty cross contamination from one group of patients to another, in 2 different hospitals, from the same piece of medical equipment.
I can see the lawsuit already.

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