All sarcasm aside, CJD is invariably fatal, usually within a year of diagnosis. What kind of surgery was performed on the patient? There was nothing that was going to save her from dying; docs don’t ordinarily operate on ‘inoperable’ cancers, so why were they operating on this woman?
Between this story and the one about the VA hospital in TN, it’s frightening the prospects of contracting diseases because of hospitals’ poor or non-existent sterilization procedures.
From the insists no negligence article (I think it’s linked at #10):
“The patient, a woman, had brain surgery June 11 to remove a tumor. The tumor was tested and found to be benign. It was not tested for CJD because the woman did not exhibit any symptoms of the disease, nor did the tissue biopsied look as though it had any signs of CJD.”