‘Mad Cow’ Threatens Blood Supply (Wired News) Contaminated transfusions kill three in the United Kingdom, and there's still no effective method for screening blood stocks. In Bodyhack. [News Source]

Study Group at Risk for Human Mad Cow Form (RedNova) Blood donors and recipients participating in a British study have been warned that they may be at risk for the human form of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Expert warns of vCJD blood transfusion risk. People who receive blood transfusions risk catching the human form of BSE from donors who do not realise they are carrying the illness, an expert warned today. [News Source]

CJD fears for transfusion patients. Twenty four people accidentally given blood transfusions contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease are now at "substantial" risk, an expert has said. [News Source]

Patients’ vCJD risk ’substantial’. A study of transfusion patients given blood contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease has indicated the 24 still alive are at "substantial" risk. [News Source]

New CJD outbreak feared from infected blood transfusions. Thousands could be at risk of developing the human form of mad cow disease from contaminated blood transfusions. [News Source]

Study group at risk for human mad cow form (UPI) LONDON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Blood donors and recipients participating in a British study have been warned that they may be at risk for the human form of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Blood Transfusions Harbor Mad Cow Disease Risk, Study Shows (Bloomberg.com) Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The human form of mad cow disease can be passed from person to person through blood transfusions, posing an increased public health risk, according to a study published in The Lancet. [News Source]

BSE Alert: Japan Finds 31st Case Of Mad Cow Disease Found (CattleNetwork.com) TOKYO (AP)--Japan’s Health Ministry said Friday it has confirmed the country’s 31st case of mad cow disease in an animal. Tests on an 84-month-old Holstein showed the cow, born at a ranch on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido, was infected with the fatal illness, it said. [News Source]

Japan confirms its 31st case of mad cow disease (CTV.ca) Japan's Health Ministry said Friday it has confirmed the country's 31st case of mad cow disease on the northern island of Hokkaido. [News Source]