'Name vCJD-risk countries' call
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Five countries which received vCJD-risk blood plasma products should be named to stop the disease spreading, campaigners say.
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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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Depending on your genetic makeup, vCJD (Varian Mad Cow Disease) will manifest itself differently, say researchers. This means vCJD may be present in some areas without being detected (vCJD means the human form of mad cow disease).
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested.
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TORONTO (CP) - Cross-border Internet pharmacies threaten to drain precious  supplies needed to treat sick Canadians and could lead to a "full-scale disaster" for the health system, a coalition of groups representing seniors, pharmacies and patients warned Monday.
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Heading overseas first, where Japan has confirmed its twelfth case of BSE, or mad cow disease. Amy Bainbridge reports the latest case was detected in a five-year-old dairy cow, but there&#39;s been little consumer reaction to the news.
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The United Kingdom has exported to &quot;at least 11 countries&quot; blood products at risk of contamination with the prion responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, The Times reports.
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Beijing, Sept 14 (PTI) The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned governments, especially those in Asia, that they may face more diseases originating in animals in the future, posing a threat to the health of human beings.
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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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The world is at an unprecedented time in the history of influenza with the threat posed by the current widespread outbreak of the H5N1 avian strain in Asia, a conference on global infectious diseases was told today.
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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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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).
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A. Austria is not correct. B. Netherlands is not correct. C. Canada is correct. D. Philippines is not correct.
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People worried about loved ones in South Asia can call a new State Department hotline for information. That number is 888-407-4747.
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If you are in Sudan it is a &#39;missed call&#39;. In Ethiopia it is a &#39;miskin&#39; or a &#39;pitiful&#39; call. In other parts of Africa it is a case of &#39;flashing&#39;, &#39;beeping&#39; or in French-speaking areas &#39;bipage&#39;.
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WHO calls for every country in the world to make plans to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic that is likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year.
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Doctors are warned that ambiguous abbreviations in medical notes are putting patients' lives at risk.