New Body to Cut Cjd in Blood Stocks Health: Risks

Sunday HeraldMay 15, 2008

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A NEW medical advisory body is to examine whether emerging technology should be used to reduce the risk of variant CJD being passed through blood supplies.

The advisory committee on the safety of blood, tissues and organs (Sabto), an independent group which was set up last year to inform the UK health departments, is discussing whether screening tests, likely to become available in the next couple of years, should be used to prevent the possible transmission of the human form of BSE.

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New Body to Cut Cjd in Blood Stocks Health: Risks

In the UK, four people are thought to have developed vCJD after receiving blood fr...

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