§ Mrs. CaltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many recipients of blood products have died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease since 1993. [145449]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonNo recipients of blood products have died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
§ Mrs. CaltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his oral statement of 17 December 2003,Official Report, column 1571, what assessment he has made of the likelihood of the donor and the recipient of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease infected blood having independently contracted variant CreutzfeldtJakob Disease. [145454]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonIt is possible that both individuals acquired variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease by eating infected meat products. While it is impossible to be certain how the patient who received a blood donation from a person who went on to develop variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) contracted vCJD, in the light of the case history and the research evidence, the possibility of the route of transmission eing transfusion-related cannot be discounted.
§ Mrs. CaltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his oral statement of 17 December 2003,Official Report, column 1571, what assessment he has made of the state of health of the second recipient of blood from the donor who later died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. [145459]
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§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe patient died of causes unrelated to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.