Friday, February 06, 2004
Scary: Swiss Cheese Brains
WHIOTV.com - Health - Study Looks At How Creutzfeldt-Jakob Is Transmitted: "British researchers believe some people could be passing the human form of mad cow disease through blood donations.
While it has yet to be proven that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can be transmitted through transfusion, the scientists did find a case in which a blood donor and the recipient died of it."
(note: I just noticed that this site I got from google news is WHIO-TV; that's Dayton Ohio, the city near which the suburb I'm from is located)
While it has yet to be proven that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can be transmitted through transfusion, the scientists did find a case in which a blood donor and the recipient died of it."
(note: I just noticed that this site I got from google news is WHIO-TV; that's Dayton Ohio, the city near which the suburb I'm from is located)
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