All Posts Tagged With: "Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease"

Linda’s comments:  When will they learn.  I remember when they infected hundreds of thousands with Hepatits C and Hepatitis B….The Canadians sued and WON, but nothing happened in the states except that they now test blood for Hepatitis….This makes you wonder how many thousands have been infected with Lyme disease and its co-infections???  We know that transplant organs are infected with Lyme, why not our blood supply???  Is it because the US will have to admit that they are giving a death threat to all those who need blood??  DISGUSTING to say the least…

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21414828

Excerpt:

During the last 20 years, the safety of blood products increased dramatically with regard to the infectious risk and notably to that represented by retroviruses (HIV and HTLV) and hepatitis B and C viruses. The aim of this review is to identify the residual and emergent viral threats that could be responsible for the occurring of new contaminations in the receivers of blood products. Beside many other viruses (HHV-8, erythrovirus B19, hepatitis A and E viruses…), a special attention has been paid to emerging arbovirus diseases (West Nile virus infection, dengue, chikungunya) that threaten to occur in the French metropolitan area following the implantation in Europe of the mosquito Aedes albopictus, the main vector of dengue and chikungunya in temperate regions. Another blood-linked risk, notably in United Kingdom and France, is the prion agent responsible for the variant form of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Full article: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=20513567&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

Excerpt:

Although the risk of infection with hepatitis and human
immunodeficiency viruses from blood transfusions has been reduced
to negligible levels, emerging infections continue to offer
threats. Such threats occur with any infection that has an
asymptomatic, blood-borne phase. In the past, it was thought that
any emerging transfusion-transmitted disease would have
epidemiologic properties similar to those of AIDS or viral
hepatitis. Over the past 20 years, however, greatest concern has
arisen from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, West Nile virus,
and Babesia. These and other emerging infections are discussed in
the context of blood safety. Copyright (c)  2010 Elsevier Inc.
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