Warning for 120 Scots in Blood Alert Over Vcjd; People at High Risk Will Not Be Allowed to Donate

Evening Times › September 22, 2004

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MORE than 100 Scots patients who received blood plasma products from someone later found to have variant CJD have been warned they are at risk of infection.

Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm said 120 people are at "high risk" of receiving contaminated products and will not be allowed to donate blood or organs.

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Warning for 120 Scots in Blood Alert Over Vcjd; People at High Risk Will Not Be Allowed to Donate

Doctors have written to the patients warning them of the risk but have also told them the chances of them developing vCJD - ...

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