Tainted-Blood Recipient Dies of ‘Mad Cow’ Illness
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Britain announced the first reported case of a person dying from the human form of “mad cow” disease after a blood transfusion from an infected donor.
Health Secretary John Reid said it wasn’t possible to determine whether the transfusion recipient contracted the brain-wasting illness from the donor or if the two were independently infected. But it was the first report supporting the idea that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease might be transmitted by transfusions.
Britain has already placed extra precautions on the blood supply, but the transfusion in the case reported Wednesday occurred in 1996, a year before such safeguards were implemented.
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