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? LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday it planned to import blood from the United States for transfusions for children born after 1996 to protect them from the risk of contracting the human form of "Mad Cow" disease.
Around 115 Britons have died from Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), believed by government experts to have been caught by eating contaminated beef. But children born after 1996 are thought to have escaped contact in the food chain.
Under the plan, the government would pay to import "fresh frozen" blood plasma from the vCJD-free United States for those children to ensure they are not exposed to the disease.
from newshub.com
Around 115 Britons have died from Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), believed by government experts to have been caught by eating contaminated beef. But children born after 1996 are thought to have escaped contact in the food chain.
Under the plan, the government would pay to import "fresh frozen" blood plasma from the vCJD-free United States for those children to ensure they are not exposed to the disease.
from newshub.com
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