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Date: | Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:50:21 -0500 |
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Netters,
I do not know where I have been in the last years, but CJD came up at the
milk bank business meeting last month and it was the first I had heard of it.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a rare, but fatal, degenerative disease
of the central nervous system. On Nov. 25, 1987, the FDA issued a Memorandum
to Blood Establishments entitled, "Deferral of Donors who Have Received Human
Pituitary-Derived Growth Hormone" that recommended measures to prevent
possible blood transmission of CJD. After 1985, the hormone became synthetic
so no problem after that time. Reason it was brought up is now it will also
be screened for milk donars. FYI- another topic of discussion was that all
blood and plasma donars will soon be screened for HIV-1 antigen which of
course will also apply for human milk donars.
Pat Bull, RN, IBCLC
The Breastfeeding Connection/Medela
Naperville, IL
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