Tainted blood treatment left man with ‘mad cow’ disease (Yorkshire Post) A haemophiliac contracted the human form of mad cow disease after being treated with a blood-clotting agent from an infected donor, experts said yesterday. [News Source]

Human mad cow disease linked to plasma (Moldova.org) A British man was infected with human mad cow disease passed along through contaminated blood plasma, health officials say.It is the first time a case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or vCJD, has been linked to plasma, The Times of London reported Tuesday.The Health Protection Agency said the man, who was in his 70s and died recently of other causes, was infected with mad cow disease from ... [News Source]