CJD Epidemic Fear ; Thousands Could Be Carrying the Disease ...
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BRITAIN could be sitting on a CJD timebomb because thousands of people might be carrying the fatal brain disease without knowing it.
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A frightening warning is going out to 15,000 people who could be at risk of carrying the human form of mad cow disease. Health officials say the letters are to inform all those patients who received blood
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested.
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, research suggests.
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Doctors have been warned to look out for cases of Lyme disease, which is thought to be on the increase.
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When an estimated 4 million people encountered a deadly epidemic called Corrupted Blood that left the landscape strewn with corpses, scientists were intrigued, not horrified. Similarly, when Whypox, a measles-like disease, was unleashed into a community of over 1.2 million young adults, researchers sat back and took notes.
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You may not realize it, but a great number of people suffer from EDD.
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BRITAIN has exported thousands of blood products potentially infected with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, to 11 countries.
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Officials are concerned about the possible spread of serious ailments such as cholera, typhoid and malaria and also issued warnings about the bird flu virus.
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Letters went out to 6,000 patients in Britain who may have been exposed to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, through blood plasma products, officials said.
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A man is being treated in a Dublin hospital with a suspected case of new variant CJD.
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Thousands of people will contract a sexually transmitted infection this weekend, campaigners warn.
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Typhoid, diarrhea and hepatitis  epidemics now pose the gravest threat to the tens of thousands  who survived a devastating tsunami that tore across the Indian  Ocean, international relief agencies said Monday.
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TORONTO - The alarm now sounds with increasing frequency and urgency: the world could be on the brink of an influenza pandemic sparked by the highly virulent avian flu strain ravaging poultry stocks in Southeast Asia, experts fear.
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A string of deaths caused by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain malady, in upstate New York has led a community to become increasingly concerned.
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Health officials fear diseases could break out within days, with thousands of people in makeshift camps with poor sanitation.
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According the World Health Organization, the biggest threat facing the world this winter may be the spread of Asian bird flu which may cause as many as two to seven million deaths before it is over.