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Thirty eight patients have been put at risk of contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) during surgery in south Wales, it has been revealed.
Letters have been sent to the patients after it was found someone who had an operation in an un-named hospital in the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg area in 2007 was at high risk of the brain disease.
They all had surgery between 2007 and 2009.
Public Health Wales said the risk of transmission was “extremely low”.
The body said the incident was the “first one of this magnitude in Wales”.
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