From jramaker@oc.ctc.edu Thu Apr 16 12:11:33 1998 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id MAA59796 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:11:29 -0700 Received: from oc.ctc.edu (oc.ctc.edu [134.39.30.20]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with ESMTP id MAA15109 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:11:28 -0700 Received: from jol.ctc.edu ([134.39.30.55]) by oc.ctc.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 3.01) with SMTP id AAA6445 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:11:26 -0700 Received: by jol.ctc.edu with Microsoft Mail id <01BD6930.6B8D2200@jol.ctc.edu>; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:08:52 -0700 Message-ID: <01BD6930.6B8D2200@jol.ctc.edu> From: "Jolene Ramaker" To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: RE: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and CJD Voice Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am at a loss as to what this has to do with residency. ---------- From: DebbieOney[SMTP:DebbieOney@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 5:57 PM To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and CJD Voice As you know Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a horrendious infectious fatal brain- deteriorating disease for which there is no treatment or cure CJD is more common than reported. In one study of Alzheimer patients 13% when autopsied were found to really have CJD. Also, since normal sterilization methods do no kill the CJD infectious agent and , it can therefore be spread by surgical instruments, it is more of a danger to public health than mere number of cases would suggest.. And, while the question of whether iit is spread by blood is controversial, blood products such as human albumin are used in vaccines such as Measles-Mumps- Rubella, rabies and allergy shots and it is used in InVitro Fertilization (IVF) cultures. CJD Voice is an e-mail discussion group. Most members have lost a loved one to CJD or currently have a loved one with CJD. Other members include people who took human pituitary growth hormones as children and therefore are at higher risk of getting CJD and people who received notices that the blood products their children received were from a pool that included a person who died from CJD. It provides support to these people as well as tries to increase funding for CJD research so treatments and a cure can be found. The CJD webpage has a message board, chat room, links to other websites with CJD information and a list of CJD researchers accepting financial contributions. The address for the CJD Voice Webpage is http://members.aol.com/larmstr853/cjdvoice/cjdvoice.htm Please feel free to visit our website and to refer people to it. Please have them contact Liz Armstrong at LArmstr853@aol.com about getting on the e-mail list. Thank you. .