Why is there such controversy and uncertainty over whether to notify recipients of blood
products that may have been contaminated with the infectious agent associated with …

New-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) was first described in the UK in 1996 and is
thought to be related to the consumption of cattle suffering from bovine spongiform …

New-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) was first described in the UK in 1996 and is
thought to be related to the consumption of cattle suffering from bovine spongiform …

There was considerable medical interest in a recent Toronto conference on prion disease--
and in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in particular--because of the recent tainted-beef …

The issue of notifying people who have been exposed to blood products that have been
associated with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has arisen at a time when the Canadian …

Abstract Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was first described in the United Kingdom
in 1996 and is thought to have been transmitted from cattle infected with bovine spongiform …

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare neurode-generative disorder with a clinical
presentation of dementia, myoclonus and progressive motor dysfunction leading to death …

When addressing transfusion safety in rela-tion to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), we tend
to think of negligible or even absent risk for sporadic CJD (sCJD), but with variant CJD …

In the past twelve to eighteen months, another perceived threat to the safety of America's
blood supply has arisen. The fear is that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) will join hepatitis …

UK and will begin leukodepletion processing of donated blood. These decisions were taken
on the basis of evidence that the “hypothetical” risk that new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob …