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Blood Banks
Findings from the United States and Scotland in blood banks provide new insights
September 19th, 2006
Reports from the United States and Scotland highlight recent research in blood banks. Study 1: Filter modifications reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. "Prions are infectious proteins believed to be responsible for a variety of progressive and fatal neurodegenerative diseases, collectively referred to as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). "By 1996, it was recognized that ingestion of beef from cattle afflicted with a TSE known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, could result in a devastating human TSE known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)," investigators in the...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2006-09-19)
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