4,000 alerted over risk of vCJD from contaminated blood plasma
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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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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for more efforts and measures to protect people from blood contamination and shortage in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood-born diseases.
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If the South African National Blood Service were to stop using race as one of its criteria for screening potential donors for HIV, the number of people receiving HIV-contaminated blood could rise from two or three a year to as many as 100, the service&#39;s
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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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An independent public inquiry is to be held into the supply of contaminated NHS blood to haemophilia patients.
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Scientists are perfecting a technique which they hope will improve detection of mad cow disease (vCJD).
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DOZENS of Victorians may have been exposed to a deadly brain illness related to mad cow disease and still not know it. The Royal Melbourne Hospital yesterday could not guarantee that every patient who had
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It recalls a solution that might be linked to a rare infection.
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TRENTON, N.J. - Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors...
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SYDNEY - Australian authorities moved Saturday to reassure people vaccinated against polio in the 1950s and 1960s after a report that a contaminated vaccine linked to cancer was issued at that time.
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Emory officials believe Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), an extremely rare degenerative disease, is the probable diagnosis of an Emory University Hospital patient following a brain biopsy, and are taking steps on the basis of that assumption.
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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals was on high alert today over fears that a form of CJD suffered by one of its patients may have been transmitted to others via surgical instruments.
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested.
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The risk of developing potentially fatal blood clots doubles after travel lasting four hours, experts find.
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THE lives of the 1056 people exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease at the Royal Melbourne Hospital will never be the same. They now have a moral obligation to inform every hospital, doctor and dentist they
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ATLANTA Oct. 1, 2004 - Emory University officials sent warning letters to more than 500 surgery patients at the school&#39;s medical center after a brain surgery patient tested positive for a fatal disease similar to the human version of mad cow disease.
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Four people have tested positive for a mild strain of bird flu, British authorities said Friday