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Of Broken Vows and Mad Cows

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Prion disease transmission through blood transfusion is a known risk, and measures have been taken to protect the blood supply. Solve it!

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  1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Guidance for industry. Recommendations to reduce the possible risk of transmission of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease by blood and blood components. 2020. Updated August 2020. https://www.fda.gov/media/124156/download. Accessed 23 Aug 2021.

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  • Llewelyn CA, Hewitt PE, Knight RS, Amar K, Cousens S, Mackenzie J, Will RG. Possible transmission of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease by blood transfusion. Lancet. 2004;363(9407):417–21.

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  1. Department of Pathology, NYU Lagone Health, Mineola, NY, USA

    Mark T. Friedman

  2. Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Kamille A. West

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Northwell Health System, Great Neck, NY, USA

    Peyman Bizargity

  4. Department of Pathology, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA

    Kyle Annen

  5. Department of Pathology, Northwell Health System, Greenvale, NY, USA

    H. Deniz Gur

  6. Department of Pathology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

    Timothy Hilbert

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Friedman, M.T., West, K.A., Bizargity, P., Annen, K., Gur, H.D., Hilbert, T. (2023). Of Broken Vows and Mad Cows. In: Immunohematology, Transfusion Medicine, Hemostasis, and Cellular Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14638-1_87

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