http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/st...toryid=1999068
Blood exports in 'mad cow' scare
From correspondents in London
September 27, 2004
BRITAIN has reportedly exported to "at least 11 countries" blood products at risk of contamination with the prion responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease.
The blood plasma products resulted from donations by nine people who later died of the incurable disease,
The Times said today.
The countries involved were named as Singapore (three samples sent), Russia (23), Oman (100), Morocco (100), Egypt (144), the sultanate of Brunei (400), Turkey (840), India (953), Dubai (2400), Brazil (44,864) and Ireland (83,500).
Five of those countries had been warned by Britain's sanitary services,
The Times said, but the daily did not know which.
Last week letters went out to 6000 patients in Britain, most of them haemophiliacs, who may have been exposed to vCJD through blood plasma products.
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