Race to find CJD blood victims
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Hospitals across the Midlands are trying to trace hundreds of patients who may have been exposed to brain-wasting vCJD through blood plasma products.
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Sep 24, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - United Kingdom health officials this week began telling several thousand Britons they may face a slightly increased risk of contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) because they received blood products from
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Government scientists are chasing a possible new case of mad cow disease in the United States, with final results on a suspicious slaughtered animal expected
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OTTAWA - A compensation fund for people who contracted hepatitis C through tainted blood between 1986 and 1990 could be extended to those who got the disease outside that time frame, the federal health minister said Wednesday.
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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment wants help as it investigates a large number of rashes in several counties in southeast Kansas.
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State and federal health authorities were trying on Wednesday to determine the cause of an outbreak that has sickened about 1,000 people who visited an Ohio island getaway in Lake Erie.
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BRITAIN could be sitting on a CJD timebomb because thousands of people might be carrying the fatal brain disease without knowing it.
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The state Health Department is investigating suspected cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain disease, in Ulster County.
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LONDON: The United Kingdom has exported to 'at least 11 countries' blood products at risk of contamination with the prion responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow ...
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Emory officials believe Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), an extremely rare degenerative disease, is the probable diagnosis of an Emory University Hospital patient following a brain biopsy, and are taking steps on the basis of that assumption.
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A man has lost his wife and sister to a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) which strikes one in a million people. Barry Harper&#39;s wife Phyllis, from Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, died last month after battling
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ELEANOR HALL: A Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease scare has erupted in a major Melbourne hospital this morning. The Royal Melbourne Hospital has contacted more than 1,000 patients after the disease was discovered.
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THOUSANDS of people, including 120 in Scotland, have been warned they may have been exposed to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease through contaminated blood products.
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A 47-year-old blood donor from White City has tested positive for the West Nile virus, marking Jackson Countyâs first human case of the mosquito-borne illness.
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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals was on high alert today over fears that a form of CJD suffered by one of its patients may have been transmitted to others via surgical instruments.
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CALGARY - A Calgary man who waged a bitter battle to have his daughter receive a blood transfusion - against her wishes â-s suing his former church bretheren and doctors at an Edmonton cancer treatment centre.
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An expert warns vCJD could become endemic in the UK unless blood screening is introduced.