Thousands face vCJD risk
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Six thousand people are to be told they may have been exposed to the human form of mad cow disease through blood products, the government says.
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Thousands of people were told yesterday that they might have been infected with the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy through contaminated blood plasma products.
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Thousands of people will contract a sexually transmitted infection this weekend, campaigners warn.
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Experts say patients given blood contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease face substantial risk.
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested.
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Virulent norovirus has forced at least 70 hospital wards across England and Wales to close to new patients.
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More than 500 patients at Atlanta&#39;s Emory University Hospital are being warned that they may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease that resembles mad cow, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported Friday.
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Health chiefs look at how a rare infection caught from farm animals came to affect 28 people in Cheltenham.
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More than 1000 people who underwent brain or spinal surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, in Australia, over the past 18 months have been warned by hospital officials that they may have been exposed to the brain wasting disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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The risk of genetic reassortment which might give rise to a potential pandemic has become the common concern of experts in the disease-control field, a Thai public health official said here on Thursday.
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A Norovirus outbreak in Calgary appears to be spreading, as the health authority got word over the weekend that six patients and seven staff members at Foothills Hospital have symptoms of the illness.
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Medical tests on a young Irishman have confirmed that he is suffering from variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease, a Dublin hospital spokesman revealed.
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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 Government is set to spend more than $3 million on new sterilisation equipment at seven public hospitals to prevent a repeat of this week&#39;s Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease contamination scare.
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IT would be almost impossible to remove the remote risk of contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a Tasmanian neurosurgeon said yesterday.
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Health experts are issuing a warning about measles after an unexpectedly high number of cases this summer.
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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals, Royal Melbourne, is contacting 1056 people who have undergone brain or spinal surgery in the past 18 months after a patient died this year of the rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).