“I thought that once those instruments were contaminated with that disease they had to be discarded... “
They didn’t know the person had CJD at the time of the surgery (6/11/09) until sometime this week.
They stopped using the instruments then for a time. However they now have re-sterilized the instruments and will continue to use them. (More info at some of the links in #10 on this thread.)
How should surgical instruments used on suspected or confirmed CJD patients be reprocessed?