Tag Archives: Mad Cow Disease

No Room For Complacency Regarding Population Subclinical vCJD? (PLoS Pathogens)

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary After a near-miss mini-epidemic of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) in the 1990s, experts caution that: “It is essential that we do not become complacent and continue both surveillance and risk management strategies in both human and animal prion diseases”. … Continue reading →

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Minimising CJD and vCJD Transmission Risks in Healthcare and Community Settings (Department of Health)

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens’ Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (ACDP TSE) Risk Management Subgroup has released updated guidance which aims to minimise the risks of transmission of CJD and vCJD in healthcare and other public settings. Full Text Link … Continue reading →

Evolutionary Mutation of Human Prion Protein May Prevent Prion Diseases? (NHS Choices / BBC News / Nature)

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A natural human mutation (called V127) in the gene encoding prion protein may offer resistance to CJD. A study using mice with this genetic mutation appears to confirm resistance to prion diseases. This finding may in future help in … Continue reading →

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Risks of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: UK Blood Safety (Department of Health)

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This document presents the Government’s response to the Science and Technology Select Committee’s “After the Storm?” report on blood safety. It sets out the government’s commitment to evidence-based and cost effective ways to reduce risks of infection from blood transfusions, … Continue reading →

Potential Transmission of vCJD (BBC News / House of Commons Science and Technology Committee / SaBTO)

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has asserted that the government has a too casual approach to the human form of mad cow disease. Roughly one in 2,000 people in the UK could be a carrier of … Continue reading →

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Blood Donation and Transmission of vCJD: Inquiry Required? (BBC News)

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Commons Science and Technology Committee has called for an independent inquiry to check the safety of donor blood arising from the hidden risk of infection from variant CJD (the human form of “mad cow disease”). A recent study revealed one in 2,000 Britons … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, In the News, National, NHS, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Abnormal Proteins (Prions), BBC Health News, Blood Organ and Tissue Donation, Blood Transfusions, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), Creuzfeldt Jacob Disease (CJD), Donor Blood, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, Mad Cow Disease, Medical Instruments, Medical Procedures, Misfolded Prion Protein (PrP), Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Neurodegenerative Diseases, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Prevalence of CJD, Prion Diseases, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Surveillance, Surveillance, Variant CJD and Blood, Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, vCJD Carriers in UK, vCJD Infection | Leave a comment

Estimates of vCJD Carriers in UK Double (BBC News / NHS Choices / BMJ)

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A study of 32,000 human appendix samples from 41 hospitals in the UK indicates that 1 in 2,000 British people may be carrying the abnormal prions associated with variant CJD (the human form of “mad cow” disease). It is … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Mad Cow Disease

No Room For Complacency Regarding Population Subclinical vCJD? (PLoS Pathogens)

Minimising CJD and vCJD Transmission Risks in Healthcare and Community Settings (Department of Health)

Evolutionary Mutation of Human Prion Protein May Prevent Prion Diseases? (NHS Choices / BBC News / Nature)

Risks of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: UK Blood Safety (Department of Health)

Potential Transmission of vCJD (BBC News / House of Commons Science and Technology Committee / SaBTO)

Blood Donation and Transmission of vCJD: Inquiry Required? (BBC News)

Estimates of vCJD Carriers in UK Double (BBC News / NHS Choices / BMJ)

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