vCJD
Britishabbreviation
Example Sentences
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The American Red Cross, which provides about 40% of the U.S. supply, last month began accepting donors previously deferred because of the risk of mad cow disease, formally known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or vCJD.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2022
Surgery with instruments previously used in a patient with vCJD that were not adequately sterilized and contaminated pituitary growth hormones taken from human pituitary glands from unwell individuals.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Each year about 17,000 people need immunoglobulin treatment and, until recently, there was a ban on using plasma from UK donors to safeguard against vCJD or "mad cow disease".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2021
But Europe’s BSE outbreak ended after 2000 and vCJD virtually disappeared; the chance that someone of Jaumain’s age in France would contract food-borne vCJD is “negligible or non-existent,” according to the paper.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 28, 2021
Millions of animals were slaughtered to eradicate the disease, but sadly some humans had already been infected with vCJD and, to date, there have been 177 deaths in the UK.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2018
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