[MHGinTN]

as an aside, we treated my son with growth hormone derived from cadaver pituitaries (back in the 70's; no synthetics then). The hormone was not rejected because only the molecules were injected, leaving the proteins in a lab centifuge.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Not to scare you or your family but...

A few years back I read an article either online or in a medical magazine, in the article there were some physicians who were looking for people who had growth hormone treatment done in the 70's. The reason being is that there was a possibility that the hormones derived from the cadavers could possibly be carrying the disease that is similar to "Mad Cow" disease for humans called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an invariably fatal brain diseases with unusually long incubation periods measured in years. The article also mentioned that the CJD was discovered in growth hormone treatments with lot #'s that originated in Germany.

http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vacsafe/concerns/bse/cjdqa.htm