CJD: Blood exports from Britain

A PowerPoint on blood exports from Britain and variant CJD

The sources for this presentation are from The Guardian see the links below.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/feb/05/bse.alexbellos

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/02/freedomofinformation.topstories3

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/26/blood-filter-vcjd-transfusion-prion-capture

Albumin is any of a group of water-soluble proteins found in blood, milk or egg.

Vial is a small bottle, usually of glass, for containing liquids.

A prion is any of a group of tiny infectious agents composed mainly or entirely of protein: though lacking in demonstrable nucleic acid, prions are capable of self-replication and are thought to be the cause of various degenerative diseases of the nervous systems of vertebrates, as scrapie and kuru

Duration : 0:3:30

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