Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease latest unknown in struggle to restore faith in blood supply.

P Vaughan - CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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 …

[PDF][PDF] The quandary of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

B Larke - CMAJ, 1998 - Can Med Assoc
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 …

Emerging problems in prion disease.

V Dodelet, M Ricketts, NR Cashman - CMAJ: Canadian Medical …, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The authors comment on the report by Drs. Chris MacKnight and Kenneth Rockwood (see
pages 529 to 536 of this issue) on the implications for Canadian physicians of human prion …

[PDF][PDF] New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the blood supply: Is it time to face the music?

J Hoey, A Giulivi, AM Todkill - CMAJ, 1998 - Can Med Assoc
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 …

Creutzfeldt—Jakob Disease: Current US Policy to Further Reduce the Possible Risk of Transmission by Transfusion

D Menache, JP O'malley - Biologicals, 1996 - Elsevier
Because the results of epidemiological and subhuman primate studies conducted over the
last quarter of a century have failed to show a statistically significant risk of transmission of …

[PDF][PDF] Is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease transmitted in blood? Is the absence of evidence of risk evidence of the absence of risk?

MN Ricketts - CMAJ, 1997 - Can Med Assoc
Résumé DANS CE NUMÉRO (page 1389), Timothy Caulfield et ses collaborateurs abordent
la question difficile que constitue la notification des patients exposés à la maladie de …

The spectrum of safety: variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United Kingdom

JW Ironside - Seminars in hematology, 2003 - Elsevier
Beginning in the mid 1980s, an epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was
seen among cattle in the United Kingdom. The cause was recognized as a prion agent …

From mad cows to sensible blood transfusion: the risk of prion transmission by labile blood components in the United Kingdom and in France

JJ Lefrère, P Hewitt - Transfusion, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Transfusion transmission of the prion, the agent of variant Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease
(vCJD), is now established. Subjects infected through food may transmit the disease through …

[CITATION][C] Controlling the blood‐borne spread of human prion disease

C Prowse - ISBT Science Series, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
I last reviewed human prion disease at the Vancouver ISBT meeting [1]. Since that time at
least some steps of human prion disease and its transmission by transfusion have become …

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and risk of blood transfusion in the United Kingdom.

AM Molesworth, J Mackenzie, D Everington… - 2011 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This study evaluated the possibility of blood transfusion as a risk factor for sporadic
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD). In the UK, all patients referred to the national surveillance …