CJD risk letters go to 6,000 patients
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Thousands of people have received letters warning they may be at increased risk of developing the incurable brain disease variant CJD as a result of medical treatment, it was announced yesterday.
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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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Robert B. Saper, MD, MPH ; Stefanos N. Kales, MD, MPH ; Janet Paquin, PhD ; Michael J. Burns, MD ; David M. Eisenberg, MD ; Roger B. Davis, ScD ; Russell S. Phillips, MD.
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More than 460 people in Northern Ireland are being warned that they could have been exposed to vCJD through blood plasma products.
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Elson So, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and colleagues report their findings in the Nov. 9 issue of the journal Neurology.
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MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Nearly 1,000 people at high risk of getting the flu called a county phone bank yesterday to register for flu shots.
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An expert warns vCJD could become endemic in the UK unless blood screening is introduced.
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The Haemophilia Society has issued an information pack to its members about vCJD today to allay fears over the Governmentâs announcement that they will be sending letters
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ATLANTA -- Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is telling more than 500 patients they may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease, although the actual risk is &quot;remote.
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a widely prescribed arthritis treatment - more than doubled patients&#39; risk of heart problems in a clinical study. The announcement, 11 weeks after Merck &amp; Co.
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THE brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is rare, and the risk of person-to-person infection is even rarer. But 1056 people who have had neurosurgery over the past 18 months at Royal Melbourne Hospital have cause to be very worried.
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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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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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Authorities urged 4,500 people who were treated by an anesthesiologist to get tested for hepatitis C, saying three patients may have been infected as the doctor gave them anesthesia.
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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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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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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested.