• UK: Summary of 29 Oct. meeting (Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs)

  • CJD blood filter call for under-13s (26 Nov. 2009)
• Mapping out the consequences of screening blood donations for PrPSc (17 Feb. 2009, UK DOH)
• UK Health Protection Agency: vCJD abnormal prion protein found in a patient with haemophilia at post mortem (17 Feb. 2009)
• UK:Health Protection Agency - CJD homepage
• UK: Screening blood donors for vCJD "unrealistic" says Safety of Blood Tissues and Organs advisory committee (20 Oct. 2008)

• FDA: Potential risk of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) from plasma-derived products

• UK Health Protection Agency: 4th case of variant CJD infection associated with blood transfusion (18 Jan. 2007)

Clewley JP, et al. Prevalence of disease related prion protein in anonymous tonsil specimens in Britain: cross sectional opportunistic survey. BMJ 2009 May21;338:b1442.

Kaski D, et al. Variant CJD in an individual heterozygous for PRNP codon 129. The Lancet 2009 Dec 19;374(9707): 2128.

Pocchiari M. Prevalence of vCJD in the UK. (editorial) BMJ 2009 May 21;338:b435.

Lefrère J-J, Hewitt P. From mad cows to sensible blood transfusion: the risk of prion transmission by labile blood components in the United Kingdom and in France. Transfusion 2009; 49(4):797–812.

Coste J, Prowse C, Eglin R, Fang C; for the Subgroup on TSE. A report on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and transfusion safety. Vox Sang 2009 Feb 10. [Epub ahead of print]

Dietz K, et al. Blood transfusion and spread of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2007 Jan; 13(1).

Editors. Fourth case of transfusion-associated vCJD infection in the United Kingdom.Euro Surveill. 2007 Jan 18;12(1).

Houston F, McCutcheon S, Goldmann W, Chong A, Foster J, Siso S, et al. Prion diseases are efficiently transmitted by blood transfusion in sheep. Blood 2008 Jul 22. [Epub ahead of print]

Turner ML, Ludlam CA. An update on the assessment and management of the risk of transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by blood and plasma products. Br J Haematol. 2009 Jan;144(1):14–23.

• UK: Children to get filtered blood transfusions to beat vCJD (27 Feb. 2010)
• vCJD victim with different gene suggests 2nd wave possible (18 Dec. 2009) See kaski, et al. in Journals above
• CJD blood filter call for under-13s (26 Nov. 2009)
• Coroners reject government plea to sample for vCJD testing during autopsies (19 Aug, 2009)
• £100m blood filter treatment that stops CJD is ‘too expensive for NHS patients’ (19 July 2009)
  • Background: Minutes of 28 April 2009 meeting of SaBTO  (will add later meeting minutes as available)
• UK: vCJD carrier risk 'overestimated' (22 May 2009)
• UK: Government committee considers limiting imported 'clean' blood to vegetarians & children amid new vCJD fears (7 Mar. 2009)
• UK could import more blood to counter BSE risk from transfusions (18 Feb. 2009)
• UK: First case of vCJD in patient with hemophilia (17 Feb. 2009)
• Scientists warn of 1st ever case of vCJD from plasma (14 Feb. 2009)
• Fears raised over new vCJD wave (17 Dec. 2008)
• vCJD may be transmitted more efficiently via transfusion than thought (6 Sept. 2008)
• Scotland: Scots doctors pioneer trial to remove 'mad cow' risk from donated blood (11 May 2008)
• UK: vCJD death "is no cause for panic" (3 Jan. 2008)
• UK: Warning on vCJD screening (24 Sept. 2007)
  • Interview with Professor James Ironside (National CJD Surveillance Unit, Edinburgh)
• Transmissibility of vCJD during blood transfusion (Biomedical Scientist, Jan. 2007)
• Scotland: Fears for blood supplies as vCJD test set to cut flow of potential donors (9 Aug. 2007)
• Hopes for better vCJD diagnosis (5 July 2007)
• Test offers vCJD breakthrough hope (5 July 2007)
• 4th case of TA-vCJD (summary from BBTS)
• Should we still be worried about vCJD? (10 Jan. 2007; The Guardian, UK)

 

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