Mad Cow Disease: Humans Could Be Infected Through Blood Transfusions
Friday, August 29, 2008 - 13:35
in Health & Medicine
A nine-year study in sheep has added to the evidence that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) can be transmitted through blood transfusion in humans. The likelihood of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) being transmitted between sheep through transfusion of infected sheep blood was 36 per cent, according to new research.