In March 2002, The Fifth Estate’s investigation showed how a surgical patch taken from the brain tissue of cadavers could lead to a brain wasting illness called Creutzfeld-Jakob disease.
Co-host Hana Gartner further uncovered how the patch, called Lyodura, was not disinfected properly, and some of the tissue was stolen from corpses on an illegal medical black market. A vastly ineffective product recall also kept the product on hospital shelves after the connection was made to the brain wasting disease.
Host: Hana Gartner
Producer: Ann-Marie Redmond
Producer: David Studer
Producer: Jim Williamson
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