Thousands of Britons who received blood products get mad cow warning
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LONDON  - Thousands of people who received plasma or other blood products in Britain received letters from the government Tuesday warning that they may have been exposed to the deadly human form of mad cow disease.
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Britain is confronting Europe's biggest outbreak of bird flu with a massive slaughter of turkeys _ and worried consumers are asking whether the disease will hit humans next.Comment
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HUNDREDS of patients of Addenbrooke&#39;s Hospital have been warned they may have come into contact with the human form of &quot;mad cow disease&quot;.
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Sep 24, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - United Kingdom health officials this week began telling several thousand Britons they may face a slightly increased risk of contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) because they received blood products from
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The government warns "natural" products being snapped up by people who can't get shots may not prevent illness.
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A donor whose blood was used to transfuse 10 people and to manufacture medicines has been identified as France's eighth known victim of the human equivalent of mad cow disease, health officials announced Thursday.
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London - Doctors in Britain warned on Wednesday that a decision to suspend the manufacturing licence of a major flu vaccine supplier could lead to shortages of the vaccine in Britain.
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Â· Lord Owen claims officials knew of hepatitis risk Â· 1,700 dead and many terminally ill after blunder
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A new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, was discovered in Spain, thus raising the number of cases in the country to 20 since the first appearance of the disease in 2000.
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Thousands of people in Britain have been sickened by the biggest outbreak of a winter vomiting virus in five years
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A new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among cattle was confirmed in Britain on Wednesday, prompting the European Union to reimpose a ban on British meat exports.
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Mad cow disease has been found in a  goat, the first time the brain-wasting affliction that ravaged  European cattle herds and killed at least 100 people has been  diagnosed in another animal, the EU said on Friday.
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Eighteen British troops are being tested over fears they may have been given contaminated blood.
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The Indian government is investigating reports that blood samples that could be contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease had entered the country from Britain, a top official said on Tuesday.
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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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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 ...
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Blood transfusion chiefs worry people could be put off donating by reports of blood being destroyed.