Fresh VCJD Outbreak Feared As Third Blood Infected Patient Dies
Post mortem examination of a third person infected with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) through blood transfusion has confirmed the presence of the fatal disease.Professor John Collinge of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Prion Unit has been tracking 66 people known to have accidentally received infected blood by transfusion. Of these, three are now confirmed to have died from vCJD and 39 from unrelated causes.
