New vCJD warning for transfusion patients
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Patients who may have received a blood plasma transfusion from an individual who later developed CJD are to receive letters informing them that they may be &quot;at risk&quot;.
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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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The Haemophilia Society has issued an information pack to its members about vCJD today to allay fears over the Governmentâs announcement that they will be sending letters
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UK scientists are upwardly revising their estimates of the number of people likely to die from new variant CJD (vCJD, also known as mad cow disease). It follows the death of a second patient, who contracted the disease after a ...
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Blood donation restrictions were tightened today after warnings in Britain that vCJD can be transmitted through transfusions. Anyone who lived in Britain for more than one year between 1980 and 1996 will not be able to give blood from November.
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The UK Department of Health is today issuing the latest information about the numbers of known cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.
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Letters went out to 6,000 patients in Britain who may have been exposed to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, through blood plasma products, officials said.
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A haemophiliac who has been told he may develop vCJD after receiving blood from a donor who later died of the disease yesterday said the Government should be held to account for the blunder.
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Transfusions of blood products might help to cut deaths in a future flu pandemic, research suggests.
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DUBLIN - A patient at a hospital in Dublin is suffering from what is believed to be Ireland&#39;s first locally contracted case of the human form of mad cow disease.
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ATLANTA Oct. 1, 2004 - Emory University officials sent warning letters to more than 500 surgery patients at the school&#39;s medical center after a brain surgery patient tested positive for a fatal disease similar to the human version of mad cow disease.
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[Health India]: Washington, Oct 12 : An article published in the October 11 issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, has revealed that alcohol consumption may slightly increase the risk for developing a certain type
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A man today described the deaths of his wife and sister from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) as a âhorrific coincidenceâ. Barry Harperâs wife Phyllis, from Walham Green, Sandhurst
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MARK COLVIN: Royal Melbourne Hospital is trying to calm the public&#39;s fears after a patient died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD.
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A university hospital on Thursday confirmed a 47-year-old man from Taegu had contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the fatal neuro-degenerative illness that causes mental disorder and destroys memory.
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WASHINGTON -- The handwritten signs, featuring a bright red tropical fish, warn of potential health risks lurking in Trader Joe's freezer compartment.
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