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From: TSS (216-119-136-42.ipset16.wt.net)
In Reply to: Re: CJD/TSEs/MADCOW BLOOD -- PRICE OF POKER GOES UP (they have gambled too long) posted by TSS on December 17, 2003 at 3:43 pm:
Two Scots in CJD blood donor scare But neither of them has shown any signs of the human form of mad cow disease. On Wednesday, UK Health Secretary John Reid told MPs a patient elsewhere in the UK had died from vCJD after a blood transfusion from an infected donor. He said 15 people thoughout the UK had received blood donations from people who have gone on to develop vCJD. Single donor Dr Reid said that a patient who received donor blood during an operation in 1997 developed variant CJD and died six years later. The blood was taken long before the donor was diagnosed with the brain-wasting disease. Consultant Dr Brian McClelland, of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, said both the cases in Scotland had received blood products from a single donor who subsequently developed the disease. But he was unable to say whether that donor had since died of the disease. "I don't have that information," he said. If I needed a transfusion, I would want it - and if I did not need to have a transfusion, I would not want to have one "We have to give top priority to looking after the confidentiality and rights of the individuals involved," he added. Dr McLelland said everything was being done to identify any possible links between cases of vCJD and transfusions. And he said there was no cause for increased public concern. "If it was me going into hospital tomorrow, or my daughter going into hospital tomorrow to have a baby, and we needed a transfusion, I would expect the doctor to make exactly the same decision tomorrow as yesterday," he said. "If I needed a transfusion, I would want it - and if I did not need to have a transfusion, I would not want to have one." Scottish Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm is to make a statement at Holyrood on Thursday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3329441.stm although the numbers of new cases are falling. Mouse model sheds new light on human prion disease snip... Professor John Collinge said “We are not saying that all or even most cases of sporadic CJD are as a result of BSE exposure, but some more recent cases may be – the incidence of sporadic CJD has shown an upward trend in the UK over the last decade. While most of this apparent increase may be because doctors are now more aware of CJD and better at diagnosing it, serious consideration should be given to a proportion of this rise being BSE-related. Switzerland, which has had a substantial BSE epidemic, has noted a sharp recent increase in sporadic CJD. snip... http://www.mrc.ac.uk/txt/index/public-interest/public-news-4/punews_archive/public-news-archive_nov_dec_02/public-bse_and_sporadic_cjd.htm CHECK OUT SOME OF THE OTHER DOCUMENTED BSE COUNTRIES TO DATE AND THERE SPORADIC CJD http://www.eurocjd.ed.ac.uk/sporadic.htm TSS
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