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The NHS has failed to use an effective method of sterilising surgical instruments contaminated with the human form of ?mad cow? disease because it did not fit in with its established washing procedures, a leading specialist in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) claimed yesterday.
The result is that hundreds of people have had their lives blighted by surgery performed with instruments possibly contaminated the prion protein responsible for vCJD said Professor John Collinge, director of the Medical Research Council?s Prion Unit at University College London.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...ontaminated-with-mad-cow-disease-8967763.html
The result is that hundreds of people have had their lives blighted by surgery performed with instruments possibly contaminated the prion protein responsible for vCJD said Professor John Collinge, director of the Medical Research Council?s Prion Unit at University College London.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...ontaminated-with-mad-cow-disease-8967763.html