TSE transmission through blood transfusion
Calculations show that in the UK it would be expected that blood
transfusion from a person infected with vCJD to someone that would have
lived otherwise for a further 20 years would have caused 10% of the cases
of vCJD.
When the mathematics are done with sporadic CJD it is seems that this
would cause around 1% of the CJD cases and hence in the UK only 1 case
as a result would be seen every 2 years and also it meant that epidemiological
studies would not be able to indicate transfusion risk at all unless extremely
large numbers were involved in them.
The transfusion studies in hamsters have taken over from these mathematical
models and the data concerning risks that have been put together since
then have given rise to government action around the globe as a result
of vCJD appearing in the UK.
Specifically this site will contain:
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Commercial data on market sizes, markets available
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Official documentation concerning the demand for such markets
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Official documentation concerning the production and sales of diagnostic
and therapeutic items in the field.
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EU, UK, US, WHO documentation concerning the disease
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Risk analyses into blood transfusion, beef and beef derived food, tallow,
gelatin, hormones.
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Addresses of all the researchers, officials, official groups, official
committees.
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Companies that are already working in the field, and details about the
work that they are carrying out currently.
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Sources for data from official and non-official browsing sites in English,
French, and German.
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Media contact concerning TSEs, advertising potential directions.
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The latest scientific research published (from 1998 onwards)
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All official news in the field since 1996.
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Latest science and media news
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Data required for the setting up of laboratories for diagnostics and investigation
of potential diagnostic systems.
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Patent ongoing searches
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All the international scientific meetings into TSE and concerned with this.
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Sterilisation techniques and assessments.
You will see from the original site that many of these factors have been
taken from this and updated.
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