krazy_tattooist
12-08-2006, 04:03 AM
ok i know it sounds a bit crazy lol but just read it
A second wave of variant CJD cases could be on the way, scientists have warned.
Professor John Collinge has established the human form of mad cow disease can be easily passed on through blood and more easily transmitted than eating contaminated meat.
The specialist has been tracking the progress of 24 people who accidentally received infected blood transfusions.
Three of them have now died and thousands more could be at risk because nobody knows how many infected donors have given blood in the past or are still donating now.
Prof Collinge, from the Medical Research Council's Prion Unit, said: "That three individuals from this small group of people that we know to have been exposed through blood transfusion have already developed vCJD infection suggests that the infection may be efficiently passed by this route, so the risk to remaining individuals is likely to be substantial.
"A national tonsil tissue screening study being performed by the Health Protection Agency may soon give estimates of the number of people who are silently infected with prions. This information is vital for public health planning given the relative ease with which prions seem to be passed on by blood transfusion."
He said it might be possible for a person to be silently infected with vCJD for more than 50 years before developing symptoms.
During this time a "carrier" posed a potential risk to others, by transmitting the infection through donated blood or contaminating surgical and medical instruments.
this is mainly for the uk guys/girls i dont think it affected usa... but it could be possible for sure. i know it sounds a lil stupid but for all we know those infected HAVE give blood.. thats a fact and it has spread. the people giving blood didnt know they were infected so could of spread it a hell of alot. the chances of a infected person coming to us for a tattoo is probally slim but still it just shows we need to double check our equiptment is sterile as possible and take extra precatuions as it has spread through equiptment that we might use already
A second wave of variant CJD cases could be on the way, scientists have warned.
Professor John Collinge has established the human form of mad cow disease can be easily passed on through blood and more easily transmitted than eating contaminated meat.
The specialist has been tracking the progress of 24 people who accidentally received infected blood transfusions.
Three of them have now died and thousands more could be at risk because nobody knows how many infected donors have given blood in the past or are still donating now.
Prof Collinge, from the Medical Research Council's Prion Unit, said: "That three individuals from this small group of people that we know to have been exposed through blood transfusion have already developed vCJD infection suggests that the infection may be efficiently passed by this route, so the risk to remaining individuals is likely to be substantial.
"A national tonsil tissue screening study being performed by the Health Protection Agency may soon give estimates of the number of people who are silently infected with prions. This information is vital for public health planning given the relative ease with which prions seem to be passed on by blood transfusion."
He said it might be possible for a person to be silently infected with vCJD for more than 50 years before developing symptoms.
During this time a "carrier" posed a potential risk to others, by transmitting the infection through donated blood or contaminating surgical and medical instruments.
this is mainly for the uk guys/girls i dont think it affected usa... but it could be possible for sure. i know it sounds a lil stupid but for all we know those infected HAVE give blood.. thats a fact and it has spread. the people giving blood didnt know they were infected so could of spread it a hell of alot. the chances of a infected person coming to us for a tattoo is probally slim but still it just shows we need to double check our equiptment is sterile as possible and take extra precatuions as it has spread through equiptment that we might use already