Hospital confirms likely case of variant CJD
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A statement issued on behalf of a major Dublin hospital effectively confirms that a young man suspected of having variant CJD does have the incurable brain disease.
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The state Health Department is investigating suspected cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain disease, in Ulster County.
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The respiratory illness outbreak at the Caritas Medical Centre has been confirmed to be parainfluenza virus type 4, the Centre for Health Protection says.
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BEAUMONT -- The family of a Beaumont woman is waiting for test results to find out if she died from a form of an affliction connected to mad cow disease.
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Japan has confirmed a new case of mad cow disease, the third discovery of the brain-wasting illness in the country this year. Â¡Â¡A prefectural spokesman says the 5-year-old
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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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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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Japanese health officials confirm their first case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
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By the time she was 8 years old, J.B. had been hospitalized 200 times  and had undergone more than 40 operations, including the removal of most of her  intestines. K.C., a 2-year-old boy, was hospitalized more than 20 times due to  complications from asthma, severe pneumonia, mysterious infections, and sudden  fevers. His doctors were baffled and unable to determine the cause of these  illnesses. In a family with five children, one after another died of sudden infant  death syndrome (SIDS).
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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. But Medical Research Council experts, writing in Science, say BSE may also manifest itself as sporadic CJD.
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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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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 mysterious case of CJD raises the possibility of a new group of people falling prey to the illness.
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Japan confirmed Friday its first case of the human variant of mad cow disease after the death of a man believed to have contracted the fatal brain-wasting illness from eating infected beef in Britain.
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A 39-year-old Douglas County resident has the flu. The Douglas County Health Department ran confirmation tests on cultures Tuesday.
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ELEANOR HALL: A Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease scare has erupted in a major Melbourne hospital this morning. The Royal Melbourne Hospital has contacted more than 1,000 patients after the disease was discovered.