Re: BRITAIN EXPORTED MAD COW BLOOD TO 11 COUNTRIES
From: Dr. Jai Maharaj (usenet_at_mantra.com)
Date: 09/29/04
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 05:34:41 GMT
In article <2rurqkF1ea7b6U1@uni-berlin.de>,
"§§§ Blue Ice §§§" <blue_ice_§§§@©®.com> posted:
> how can they test and know and then knowingly send those products.
> is it the british tech. that tells only after 5-10 years or they did it
> deliberately.
"How can they"? Well, they are bio-terrorists, that's how -- and why.
Jai Maharaj
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> Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
>
> > UK sent 'mad cow blood' to India
> >
> > PTI
> > Rediff
> > September 27, 2004 22:50 IST
> >
> > Britain exported blood products that could be
> > contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease to at
> > least eleven countries, including India, according to a
> > report on Monday.
> >
> > Officials last week contacted five of the countries
> > identified as most at risk from the imported blood
> > products, which were donated by nine people who died from
> > the variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD), The Times
> > reported.
> >
> > However, the government has been accused of "lethal
> > secrecy" after refusing to identify publicly the five
> > nations, which have been the subject of risk assessments
> > by the Health Protection Agency. The suspect products
> > were exported in the late 1990s.
> >
> > The warnings were issued after two British cases were
> > discovered in the past year, where people were thought to
> > have contracted the brain-wasting disease from blood
> > transfusions.
> >
> > Besides India, where 953 vials of albumin was sent, the
> > other ten recipient countries were Ireland (polio
> > vaccine, 83,500 doses), Brazil (44,864 vials albumin, 80
> > vials immunoglobulin), Dubai (2,400 vials albumin),
> > Turkey (840 vials immunoglobulin), Brunei (400 vials
> > albumin), Egypt (144 vials albumin), Morocco (100 vials
> > albumin), Oman (100 vials immunoglobulin), Russia (23
> > vials factor VIII) and Singapore (three vials
> > immunoglobulin).
> >
> > A health department spokesperson defended the decision
> > not to name the countries. Such action was not felt
> > appropriate, he said, and it was up to the countries in
> > question to take action should they wish to do it.
> >
> > "We are giving them the information. We have taken a very
> > precautionary approach. Other countries may take the
> > approach that they don't want to do anything. We are
> > happy to advise them."
> >
> > Patient bodies and politicians condemned the government's
> > secrecy as a face-saving strategy that could hamper
> > proper surveillance of a fatal and incurable infection.
> > Of the more than 150 people worldwide who have died of
> > the disease to date, 143 have been from the UK.
> >
> > Frances Hall, secretary, Human BSE Foundation, which
> > represents the families of victims, said that the
> > government refusal was irresponsible to the population at
> > large.
> >
> > Hall's son, Peter, died from the disease at the age of 20
> > in 1996.
> >
> > "It is being left to foreign authorities to act as they
> > see fit, but the greatest precautions must be taken at
> > all levels to make sure any possible vCJD infection is
> > not passed on," she said.
> >
> > "Britain, sadly, leads the way in vCJD. It is our
> > affliction, and we should be taking full responsibility
> > for it. This disease is a death sentence and we must take
> > every possible precaution."
> >
> > Revelations of the export list emerged after an
> > announcement by Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical
> > officer, that 6,000 British patients who had a
> > theoretical risk of vCJD infection -- having received
> > blood products from donations from the nine vCJD donors -
> > - were being contacted.
> >
> > More at:
> > http://us.rediff.com/news/2004/sep/27blood.htm
> >
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