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| Health professionals have been concerned that variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) could be transmitted through surgical equipment because the prion proteins that cause the illness are not destroyed by standard sterilisation techniques. Peter Phillips, The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Wales Paper 13: Sterilisation options and issues Dr. In the case of Re Marion (1992), the primary issue was whether the parents of a girl with a profound intellectual disability had the power to consent to a sterilisation operation, especially when the operation was not required for an immediate medical purpose. |
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