CJD Epidemic Fear ; Thousands Could Be Carrying the Disease ...
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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 government has been urged to speed up its research into Variant CJD - the human form of mad cow disease. It follows news that more than 460 people in Northern Ireland are being warned that they could have
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested. But Medical Research Council experts, writing in Science, say BSE may also manifest itself as sporadic CJD.
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A string of deaths caused by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain malady, in upstate New York has led a community to become increasingly concerned.
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New Jersey's top health official is describing a recent spate of E. coli sickness as "a serious outbreak," but says the threat seems to have passed.
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You may not realize it, but a great number of people suffer from EDD.
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Thousands of people will contract a sexually transmitted infection this weekend, campaigners warn.
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Mental illness according to experts is assuming an alarming dimension all over the world. The preponderance of such cases is attracting the attention of individuals, governments and non-governmental organisations
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A frightening warning is going out to 15,000 people who could be at risk of carrying the human form of mad cow disease. Health officials say the letters are to inform all those patients who received blood
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Almost three million people have been affected by norovirus so far this winter the latest figures suggest.
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Officials are concerned about the possible spread of serious ailments such as cholera, typhoid and malaria and also issued warnings about the bird flu virus.
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Doctors have identified a highly contagious virus as the likely cause of an outbreak that left more than 100 teenagers in Md. violently ill over the weekend.
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Relatively few deaths from variant CJD will be caused by infected blood, scientists suggest.
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Health officials are concerned about a Bird Flu outbreak they say could kill millions of people. The World Health Organization says as many as seven million people could die and billions of others could get
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ATLANTA -- More than 500 patients at Emory University Hospital have a remote chance of exposure to a fatal disease similar to mad cow after a brain surgery patient tested positive for the condition, officials said.
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Asia faces an outbreak of  unprecedented proportions as it grapples with avian influenza,  which the World Health Organization warns could develop into a  pandemic unless detection and prevention methods are improved.
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, research suggests.