County Medical Examiners Prosector's Bane: Creutzfeldt-jakob Disease
Medical Examiners exact precautions with high risk
cases
AIDS and Hepatitis B can sometimes thrive in the
deadest of places
But there exists an abject malady far beyond the scope
of these
The currish blight of pathologists everywhere:
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
CJD: a rare spongiform encephalopathy
As difficult to destroy as anything in the whole of
biology
Rapid, progressive dementia, an inexorable feature of
the disease
Vacuolar brain reduced to a porous gray Swiss cheese
This pernicious plague can enter your bloodstream
Percutaneosly through a penetrating injury
So double-glove and employ face shield protection
To avoid contracting this insalubrious contagion
Moldered brain
Prosector's bane
One in seven autopsies involves
Maladroit self injuries and dissection faux pas
A slip of the scalpel, a scrape from a bone
Negligence an epitaph etched on pathologist tombstones
CJD autopsy conducted entirely in situ
Corpse retained in a body bag to collect stray infected
tissue
Grume permeate sack bays the disease within
Excised organs placed in containers filled with phenol-
saturated formalin
Instruments and surfaces washed with 01 N sodium
hydroxide
Undiluted bleach swabs can prevent accidental
cadaverous homicide
All surgical gowns and gloves are assumed contaminated
They are transported to the basement and promptly
incinerated
The autoclave: a prosector's trusted friend
Pre-Vacuum FaurForgeТЎ M7 with locking ends
Cranked to 134ТА C, where CJD quickly dies
We leave instruments inside for two hours at a time
Accidental self-contamination our fear
We conquer trepidation with our disinfection gear
The patron devil of pathology, thy title: CJD
Its cruel epidemiology puts us all in jeopardy
We solemnly dedicate this dirge for the fallen
Who selflessly plunged into infected revulsion
Their steadfast duty deserves our thanks
Signed: TCME, Doctors Putnam, Radcliffe, and Fairbanks
CJD
Scourge of pathology
Calamitous scrapie
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease