Guest guest Posted March 28, 1999 Report Share Posted March 28, 1999 Did anyone else have a few questions pop up in their head when they read the article on Doug? If there are so few CJD patients, why would they be so afraid of a blood shortage by just pulling those blood products? I mean they say 1 in million? Is it only people who give blood that get CJD? It seems that alot of cjd patients have been blood donors. This one really worries me! " finally, Bayer says it's manufacturing process is so sophisticated that it can reduce the prions from a cjd infected donation to negligiable levels by the time products are fractionated " . If they can reduce to proins in a donation- why can't it be reduced in a patient? Maybe they deserve the noble prize, if they are able to disinfect it! This makes me wonder if they " know " that it is in the blood and blood products. The point is, if it really is a " one in a million " disease, if you take away just the cjd donations, it shouldn't take away much of the blood supply, sounds like they know something that we don't! We can't even get research for our loved ones and our loved ones don't count- because the numbers are so " small " . If I were a person who needed the blood products, I would want the option to deny a cjd patients blood, they have the RIGHT! It makes no sense to me that they have no idea where this disease comes from, or how to treat it, or what it does to a person, but they can turn around and say, well it doesn't come from blood, If they KNOW that, then they know more than they are willing to share. Sorry this just frustrates the heck out of me! Moons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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