What is the current status or situation in the U.K. with the man who contracted vCJD through fractionated plasma-derived product?
On February 17, 2009, Britain’s Health Protection Agency announced that a haemophiliac man was found, at autopsy, to have evidence of infection with the agent (prion) that causes vCJD, the human form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) – commonly known as mad cow disease. A final conclusion as to how this haemophilia patient became infected with the vCJD prion has yet to be reached. However, at this point UK authorities consider that the infection most likely occurred through transfusion of a fractionated plasma-derived product (Factor VIII) eleven years ago, made from UK plasma that contained plasma from a donor who went on to develop vCJD after donation. The vCJD infection was detected in the spleen of the deceased 70 year old haemophiliac during a post-mortem autopsy. The man died from causes unrelated to vCJD and did not display any symptoms of vCJD, or any neurological condition, when he was alive. If confirmed, this will represent the first reported case of transmission of
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