Race to find CJD blood victims
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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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World News &gt; Durban, Dec 6 : A major row in South Africa over profiling of blood donors according to race intensified today with the disclosure that blood donated by President Thabo Mbeki three years ago had been destroyed instead of being used.
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OTTAWA - A compensation fund for people who contracted hepatitis C through tainted blood between 1986 and 1990 could be extended to those who got the disease outside that time frame, the federal health minister said Wednesday.
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A public inquiry is to be held into why contaminated blood products were given in the 70s and 80s.
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- A generation ago, one in every 100 units of donated blood in the United States passed HIV or the hepatitis C virus to an unknowing recipient.
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After six years of saying no, the federal government is considering financial compensation for thousands of &quot;forgotten victims&quot; who got potentially fatal hepatitis C from tainted blood.
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Government scientists are chasing a possible new case of mad cow disease in the United States, with final results on a suspicious slaughtered animal expected
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Scientists show how the proteins that cause vCJD bypass the body's defences and enter the bloodstream.
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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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UK scientists are upwardly revising their estimates of the number of people likely to die from new variant CJD (vCJD, also known as mad cow disease). It follows the death of a second patient, who contracted the disease after a ...
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The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) will comment on the racial profiling of blood donors after they hold a meeting with the department of health on Saturday.
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A university hospital on Thursday confirmed a 47-year-old man from Taegu had contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the fatal neuro-degenerative illness that causes mental disorder and destroys memory.
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Blood donation restrictions were tightened today after warnings in Britain that vCJD can be transmitted through transfusions. Anyone who lived in Britain for more than one year between 1980 and 1996 will not be able to give blood from November.
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A new genetic blood test allowing a closer match between donors and recipients is being developed.
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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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OTTAWA -- The federal government says it will open negotiations on compensating the so-called forgotten victims of the tainted blood scandal -- those infected with hepatitis C before 1986 and after 1990.
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MARK COLVIN: Royal Melbourne Hospital is trying to calm the public&#39;s fears after a patient died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD.