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		azazqadir on April 20, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe >>Patients had been infected through the sterilized scalpels and endoscopes. For someone who had an endoscope recently, that's really scary.

zymhan on April 20, 2016 [–]

I mean, people were also at times infected with HIV and Hepatitis C from blood transfusions, but we realized the risk and took steps to mitigate it.

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