Martin calls for blood transfusion vCJD report
This latest and most potentially shocking mad cow disease scare has utterly changed medicine’s thinking on variant CJD.
“The Department of Health & Children and the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) were informed today by the Department of Health in the UK of the d eath of a 69-year-old man from vCJD, who may have contracted the disease through a blood transfusion from a person who was incubating vCJD but who was symptom-free at the time of the donation in 1996.
