Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

No Sign People Get Brain Disease From Blood

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 20th, 1997

Blood carries the infective agent that causes mad cow disease and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), but there is no sign that anyone has caught the disease from blood products, experts said.

They told a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel that checks around the world have turned up no evidence that anyone has contracted the brain-wasting CJD from blood transfusions, plasma, or other blood products.

"There is an infectious agent in blood that has never been shown to be transmitted in human beings," said William Freas, acting secretary of the FDA's transmissible encephalopathies advisory committee.

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