CDC to make diagnosis of suspected Tainan CJD case

This is something that worries me. I am still not allowed to give blood because I lived in England in the early 1990s. I think I am safe after all this time, but the Red Cross is still is refusing my blood.

CDC to make diagnosis of suspected Tainan CJD case: "The Center for Disease Control (CDC) under the Department of Health is expected to announce early next month whether a suspected case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) reported in Tainan, southern Taiwan is indeed CJD -- the human derivation of mad cow disease.

According to CDC Deputy Director-General Chou Chih-hao, CDC specialists met in March to discuss the case -- reported by the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Hospital -- and based on limited information, made a preliminarily diagnosis that the patient was not suffering from CJD. The United Daily News, however, reported Thursday that the same patient, who has developed classic symptoms of CJD over the past 10 months and is now in a vegetative state, could be suffering from a new variant of CJD (nv-CJD), as she had received placenta injections for a long time before checking into the NCKU Hospital for treatment."