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People who lived in the UK in the 'mad cow disease' years may now be able to give blood. The risk of vCJD is tiny

  • Written by Hamish McManus, Biostatistician, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
People who lived in the UK in the 'mad cow disease' years may now be able to give blood. The risk of vCJD is tinyShutterstock

From today, eligible people who were in the United Kingdom in the 80s and 90s will be able to donate blood in Australia again.

That’s because the risk of acquiring variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) from blood transfusions in Australia is incredibly tiny.

We calculated that risk was about one in 1.4 billion, publishing our...

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