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Liz,

Would you please distribute this document to CJDvoice members.

Opinion:

Following my son’s death to CJD, I have researched the subject of cadaveric

dura mater transplants to great lengths as a vehicle to transmit CJD. The

product’s used is widespread and I was surprised to find out it was used a

lot in other kind of surgeries. Lyodura, which is a brand name, has the

worst track record for their production of cadaveric dura mater. The

medical community has found the product unsafe, have theoretically tied the

product to many CJD victims. The manufacturer, B. Braun Melsungen in

Germany, claims it has never been proven yet in a court of law, or by the

medical community, their Lyodura product carried the prion and has

transmitted CJD. I think their statement is accurate. Proving it without a

doubt is no small feat and the medical community has never taken the steps

to do that. CJD is still a big unknown. On the other hand, the company

cannot prove their facilities and products are free of prions therefore

apart from the Lyodura itself, it also raises other possibilities of

IATROGENIC TRANSMISSION BY SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS.

One of the things that really bother me is they produced dura mater from

1969 to 1996. Up to 1987 they had a pooled manufacturing process.

According to their figures, they sold a million units worldwide. We all

read about prions, how you cannot destroy them through autoclaving, they

withstand heat, they withstand time, there are no chemicals found so far to

destroy them. You have this company which had all kinds of instruments and

personnel come into contact with prions, which also manufactures numerous

other medical devices most of them that comes in direct contact with the

central nervous system. They are the 14th largest suppliers to hospitals

and clinics around the world, a major portion of their sales are in North

America. I am not a rocket scientist but read the definition of IATROGENIC.

If you ever worked in a manufacturing facility, equipment, instruments, gets

move around. I don’t know if the FDA/Health Canada among others, has ever

questioned this, sometimes the obvious gets passed them. I know they have

questioned themselves in FDA TSE Committee Meetings. I don’t know if they

ever asked this manufacturer, of instruments they still import, to give some

kind of statement to the effect they never moved a single piece of equipment

from the dura mater manufacturing location of their facilities to another.

Maybe they made a major discovery on how to decontaminate instruments.

Maybe it is time government agencies do their jobs properly and protects

their citizens. You be the judge of how safe instruments are before they

use them on you SEE LIST BELOW. In the future, I for one will not count on

government agencies to protect myself and will ask the famous question, who

manufactured these instruments you are going to use on me or my family. I

hope you will also take the necessary steps to protect yourself.

To all of you which has lost somebody to CJD and it was classified under

SPORADIC, and are so afraid that it was familial, look at my example in the

paragraph above and maybe you have grounds to continue trying to come up

with answers. You rightly deserve answers to your questions by the

organizations that are there to protect us.

Here is a list of products they advertise on their web site: You can find

more information on these products at:

http://serv03.bbraun.com/BBRAUN/ENGLISH/INDEX.HTM

Abdominal Surgery, Administration Set, Anaesthesia, Regional, Anaesthetics,

Angiography, Arthroscopy, Arthroscopy, Aspiration, intraoperative and

postoperative, Bandage materials, Biopsies, Bioreactors, Bladder Drainage,

Blood administration Set, Blood Bank, Blood coagulation, Blood taking

equipment and laboratory supplies, Blood tubing systems, Cannulas.

cardiological peripheral urological, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery,

Catheterization of the Vena Cava, Catheters, Catheters central venous,

Central Venous Catheterization, Central venous catheters, Chronic wound

treatment supplies, Clinical nutrition, Coagulation therapy, Connective

tissue implants, Continuous epidural and caudal Anaesthesia Sets, Continuous

interpleural Analgesia catheter Sets, Craniofacial Surgery,

Customer-specific Sets, Cystometrie, Dental, Dental Instruments,

Dermatology, Diabetic care, Dialysis, Dialysis concentrates, Dialysis

technology, Dialysis units, Disinfectants, Disinfection and hygiene,

Drainage, Electrophysiology, Emergency systems, Endoprosthesis, Endoscopy,

Engineering and process technology for bioreactors, ENT, Enteral feeding,

Epidural Anaesthesia Sets, Extracorporeal blood treatment, Fermentation and

peripheral equipment, Fibrinolytic agents, Filter products, Fine Dosage,

Fine-Dosage Syringe, Flexible Organization and Communication System for

Infusion Therapy, General Surgery, Gynaecology, Haemostasis, Haemostatic

felt, Hand Surgery, Hemodynamics, Hemofiltration solutions,

Heparin , HF Surgery, Hip- and knee-joint prostheses, Home care products,

Hygiene supplies, Hypodermic Needles, I.V. Administration Sets, I.V.

Cannulae, Incontinence care , Infusion pumps and equipment, Infusion

solutions, Infusion therapy, Infusion units and equipment, Initial Puncture,

Injection paraphernalia, Injection solutions and concentrates, Insulin

Syringe, Interpleural Analgesia, Irrigation solution, Irrigation Syringe,

Laboratory and blood-taking equipment, Laboratory equipment for microbiology

and chemistry, Laboratory supplies, LMW heparin, Local hemostyptic agents,

Long-term Infusion, Microsurgical sutures, Minimally-Invasive Surgery,

Miscellaneous, Monitoring Sets (CVP), Motor Systems, Multilumen Catheter,

Neddles for Epidural Anaesthesia, Neddles for Spinal Anaesthesia, Neddles,

hypodermic, Nerve Stimulator for Plexus Anaesthesia, Nerve Stimulators,

Neurosurgery, Nutrition (enteral/parenteral), Oncology, Opthalmology,

Orthopaedics, Osteosynthesis, Ostomy care, Outpatient infusion therapy,

Oxygen therapy, Pain therapy, Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA),

Percutaneous Liver Biopsy, Percutaneous Liver Biopsy Set, Percutaneous

Nephrostomy, Percutaneous Nephrostomy Sets, Peritoneal dialysis

Peritoneal lavage, Plasmapheresis, Pleurocentesis and pleural drainage,

Plexus Anaesthesia Products, Port catheter systems, Portable Syringe Pumps,

Practice supplies and hygiene products, Pressure Monitoring, Process

automation, Retrograde or Antegrade Ureteric Stent Sets, Retrograde

Urethrographie, Sets for Combined Spinal / Epidural Anaesthesia, Skin

closure, Special products for outpatient surgery, Spinal column implants and

instruments, Spine, Spine Surgery, Sterilcontainer System, Sterile supply

and disposal containers, Stopcock Systems, Suprapubic Bladder Drainage Sets,

Suprapubic Urine Drainage, Surgical instruments, Surgical Instruments and

Special Disciplines, Surgical suture material, Syringes, Tissue glue, TIVA,

Transfusion Therapy,Transfusion Units and equipment, Transurethral Kidney

Drainage, Traumatology, Ultrasonic guided Fine Needle Biopsy Set, Ureteral

Stent Sets, Ureteric Stenting, Urine Drainage, Urology, Vascular grafts,

Vascular prostheses, Venipuncture

Vessel replacement, Veterinary, Veterinary and equipment for vascular

surgery, Volume replacement therapy, Wound care, Wound closure , Wound

drainage.

Please note I might have made a typo mistake on some of the products

mentioned above, the proper names are identified on their web site.

Regards

Roussel

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