- A North expert claims he has found evidence which PROVES
people can catch so-called Mad Cow Disease from blood transfusions.
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- Dr Harash Narang was the first scientist to establish
a link between the disease BSE, which affects farmyard animals, and its
human equivalent vCJD.
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- Now he claims to have conclusive proof that a female
victim died after receiving infected blood, rather than by eating diseased
meat.
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- And he revealed he is looking into a further 23 cases
in which people died following transfusions.
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- Elizabeth Bottle, of Ashford, Kent, fell victim to vCJD
in 1996, aged 59.
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- Dr Narang says injuries to her brain were like those
found in people who took growth hormones to treat dwarfism or
gigantism.
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- These drugs were later withdrawn after several patients
died.
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- Dr Narang said: "The woman in question never took
these growth hormones.
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- "However, she did have a blood transfusion before
developing the clinical symptoms of vCJD."
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- He explained: "It takes time for your body to absorb
food and particles of the agent which causes vCJD enter your system
slowly.
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- "But being injected with infected material means
it enters your system in a concentrated form and causes a different type
of brain damage."
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- A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said: "We
are not aware of any case in the UK, or any potential case of vCJD, where
the disease has been caused by a blood transfusion.
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- "Nor is there any evidence worldwide that vCJD has
ever been transferred from one person to another via blood
transfusions."
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- However, the Sunday Sun can reveal blood plasma products
made with donations from victims of vCJD were withdrawn in 1997 following
fears that people might catch the disease.
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- At the time of the recall, a committee which helped shape
Government policy on vCJD and BSE admitted that blood transmission of the
disease couldn't be ruled out.
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