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The first was commissioned by the Department of Health and produced by the specially convened vCJD Clinical Governance Advisory Group (CGAG). Chaired by Sir William Stewart, it proposes the creation of patient-focused clinical governance arrangements to standardise the care that patients at risk of vCJD receive across the country. It recommends that GPs should take the lead in commissioning care for them, supported by consultant neurologists and specialist centres such as the National CJD Surveillance Unit and the National Prion Clinic.

MediaNewswire.com noted the publication of “Two new reports on vCJD ( variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)”.

Oi oi

5. The report refers to the following as “people at risk”:

- Recipients of blood components donated by people who later developed vCJD.

- Recipients of certain plasma products ( clotting factors ).

- Blood donors to patients who later developed vCJD.

Blood donors infected with this will give it to the respective recipients. Nice.

1. Both reports can be found on-line at http://www.dh.gov.uk

2. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease ( CJD ) is one of a group of diseases called Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. All of these diseases can have a very long incubation period, cause severe and irreversible damage to the central nervous system. There are so far no proven effective treatments.

Oh, great, tell me more. All that AND no cure? Reading all this scary stuff makes me reconsider sitting here in the park on a bench…. Probably not sterile….