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Ralph peters about the u.s.-russian relationship coming up in a few minutes from now.cke in new hampshire where theres been a major health care. officials are warning at least 13 patients at a hospital may have been exposed to a rare fatal brain condition that is similar to mad cow disease. laura ingle is following this live from our new york newsroom. laura, how did the patients get exposed to this? >> reporter: martha, health officials in manchester, new hampshire, a neurosurgery patient at ca...

He sets out to do things to help people, and then his ambition gets the best of him, especially in this case, where he got so driven, that he believed he was smarter than everybody else. and that there were a lot of regulations and rules that were put into place that michael believed were unnecessary. >> did i take the best medical social history? no. was some of that paperwork forged? yes. now, did an hiv case come along? i dont know. but, i can tell you that in the sterilization process, the p...

In this case, where he got so driven, that he believed he was smarter than everybody else. and that there were a lot of regulations and rules that were put into place that michael believed were unnecessary. >> did i take the best medical social history? no. was some of that paperwork forged? yes. now, did an hiv case come along? i dont know. but, i can tell you that in the sterilization process, the processing techniques that these companies use, it irradiates everything anyway. hepatitis, hiv, ...

Problem and why what we have are reports of bad disease is because the alcohol wipes in the hospital are used to clean off iv shots or before we give shots to sterilize a site. if you instead of sterilizing it, youre actually laying down bacteria or its spores, you could be injected that bacteria directly into the bloodstream of a very vulnerable patient. >> when we talk about the strain of bacteria, youre saying it is common. it is apparently resistant to alcohol. so what can be done in the des...

Occasionally they released private meeting pictures but these were the first taken in public since july of 2006. they show castro visiting with workers on wednesday and they were posted on a state run media website. 2,000 veterans are tested after there was dental procedures using unsterilized equipment. patients could have been exposed to hepatitis and even hiv. now we have news employee was fired two months after voicing concerns about the sterilization process. congressman russ carnahan tou...

Creutzfeldt-jakob disease or sporadic cjd may have exposed other patients with similar surgeries. the other patients are at risk because the infectious disease that causes sporadic cjd is not destroyed by the standard sterilization process mandated at hospital. the disease is extremely dangerous. it progresses rapidly once symptoms appear but can take decade to show up. the patient who died had surgery in april and died in august. symptoms include behavior changes, memory loss, and impaired coor...