Posted on 08/05/2004 10:17:35 PM PDT by neverdem
British researchers have found a second person who became infected with the human version of mad cow disease as the result of a contaminated blood transfusion.
Reporting in the journal Lancet, the researchers said they had found the malformed proteins, or prions, that cause the disease in an unidentified person who died this year of unrelated causes. The discovery of a second transfusion-associated prion infection, experts said, suggests that the risk of mad cow disease to the population is higher than they had realized, because it appears to confirm that eating infected beef is not the only way of spreading the disease.
The prions were found through an intensive autopsy, which was conducted because the victim was one of 17 people known to have received blood from donors who later developed the incurable disease.
Both the United Kingdom and the United States took steps several years ago to protect their blood supplies from mad cow contamination because of what was then a theoretical concern that it could be transmitted through blood transfusions. In 2001, the American Red Cross began to turn away donors who had spent three months in Britain, or six months anywhere in Europe, since 1980.
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It's all Bush's fault!
Well why in the heck are they putting cow's blood into humans???
of 10-W-04 from us Good Roboticans. You ever hear of a human catching Mad Robot Disease?
Hillary AND Teresa?
I presume those poor individuals must have received the blood from the Klintoons. I would like to add , the picture looks like shrillary is engaged in a porno movie scene. Ha Ha. Bush/Cheney 2004
And if Hillary runs then there's First "Lady" Janet Reno...
Major Cow Blood Scandal Brewing:
Russian Scientists Make Chocolate from Cow Blood . . . (Registration Required)
I found this report on This Site
You know there's already a cure to madcow disease.......MIDOL.
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