Hepatitis viruses detected in four more Green Cross blood products

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Hepatitis viruses detected in four more Green Cross blood

productshttp://www.japantimes.co.jpKyodo News

A forensic doctor has detected hepatitis viruses in four kinds of blood products

that are not covered in a series of damages suits filed by people who contracted

hepatitis C from tainted blood-clotting agents, the doctor and other medical

sources said Friday.

The four are immunoglobulin, haptoglobin, plasmin and cholinesterase blood

products made in the 1970s and 1980s by now-defunct drug maker Green Cross

Corp., which is now part of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp.

Immunoglobulin is a drug to combat measles, while haptoglobin is an

antihemolytic anemia agent. Plasmin is a blood solvent and cholinesterase is

effective for repairing nerve connection damage.

Tatsuo Nagai, a professor emeritus at Kitasato University in Kanagawa

Prefecture, detected the viruses after analyzing protein materials and gene

information contained in the blood products, which he had obtained from Green

Cross.

Nagai detected the hepatitis C virus from immunoglobulin made in 1977, and the

hepatitis B virus from haptoglobin made in 1976 and 1987, plasmin made in 1976

and cholinesterase made in 1977, the sources said.

Both hepatitis B and C viruses were found in haptoglobin made in 1976.

Nagai said he worries about a possible outbreak of hepatitis caused by those

products on top of the outbreak due to the fibrinogen and christmassin covered

in the lawsuits.

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has already instructed drugmakers to

check whether there are patients who contracted hepatitis through blood products

other than fibrinogen and christmassin.

Health minister Yoichi Masuzoe told a news conference Friday that his ministry

has filed an inquiry with Nagai about his research but has yet to receive a

reply.

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/news/newsRev/2007/NewsRev-237.html#_Hepatitis_viruses\

_detected

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Hepatitis viruses detected in four more Green Cross blood

productshttp://www.japantimes.co.jpKyodo News

A forensic doctor has detected hepatitis viruses in four kinds of blood products

that are not covered in a series of damages suits filed by people who contracted

hepatitis C from tainted blood-clotting agents, the doctor and other medical

sources said Friday.

The four are immunoglobulin, haptoglobin, plasmin and cholinesterase blood

products made in the 1970s and 1980s by now-defunct drug maker Green Cross

Corp., which is now part of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp.

Immunoglobulin is a drug to combat measles, while haptoglobin is an

antihemolytic anemia agent. Plasmin is a blood solvent and cholinesterase is

effective for repairing nerve connection damage.

Tatsuo Nagai, a professor emeritus at Kitasato University in Kanagawa

Prefecture, detected the viruses after analyzing protein materials and gene

information contained in the blood products, which he had obtained from Green

Cross.

Nagai detected the hepatitis C virus from immunoglobulin made in 1977, and the

hepatitis B virus from haptoglobin made in 1976 and 1987, plasmin made in 1976

and cholinesterase made in 1977, the sources said.

Both hepatitis B and C viruses were found in haptoglobin made in 1976.

Nagai said he worries about a possible outbreak of hepatitis caused by those

products on top of the outbreak due to the fibrinogen and christmassin covered

in the lawsuits.

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has already instructed drugmakers to

check whether there are patients who contracted hepatitis through blood products

other than fibrinogen and christmassin.

Health minister Yoichi Masuzoe told a news conference Friday that his ministry

has filed an inquiry with Nagai about his research but has yet to receive a

reply.

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/news/newsRev/2007/NewsRev-237.html#_Hepatitis_viruses\

_detected

_________________________________________________________________

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difference.

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