'Low' vCJD death toll from blood
21293
Relatively few deaths from variant CJD will be caused by infected blood, scientists suggest.
749009
Bacterial infections of the blood, not  malaria, may be the biggest killer of children in sub-Saharan  Africa and many of the deaths could be prevented by simple  vaccinations, researchers said on Wednesday.
50803
(Albany, NY-AP, October 18, 2004) - State health officials said Monday an investigation found nothing unusual about the number of people who died of a rare, brain-wasting disorder in the Hudson Valley in the past year.
30579
Fairfax County health officials said an elderly man has died of a suspected case of West Nile virus. If additional tests confirm the diagnosis, his death will be the first reported fatality from the virus in Virginia this year.
715450
Japanese health officials confirm their first case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
159515
A British man suffering from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease is no longer terminal ill, thanks to an experimental medical treatment, his father said.
558312
A British man suffering from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, is no longer terminally ill thanks to an experimental medical treatment, his father says.
451193
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 ...
608076
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 ...
568375
Thousands of people have received letters warning they may be at increased risk of developing the incurable brain disease variant CJD as a result of medical treatment, it was announced yesterday.
743374
An expert warns vCJD could become endemic in the UK unless blood screening is introduced.
53216
Iraq's civilian death toll falls in June to its lowest level since February, the Iraqi government says.
702315
Patients with hemophilia and other blood-clotting disorders face an uncertain though probably very low risk of contracting the human form of mad cow disease from medicines made using donated plasma, health officials said Monday.
5775
Hospitals across the Midlands are trying to trace hundreds of patients who may have been exposed to brain-wasting vCJD through blood plasma products.
481805
Irish premier Bertie Ahern moved quickly to quell public fears today after the countryâs first case of the fatal brain disease variant CJD was diagnosed in a Dublin hospital.
733448
MADISON, Wis. -- A new study is sure to put a damper on the holidays. It said Christmas is the deadliest day of the year. Researchers in California found that more Americans die from heart attacks and other
94046
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.