From saint@admsec.wwu.edu Thu Apr 16 15:21:08 1998 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id PAA18960 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:21:07 -0700 Received: from blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu [140.160.248.20]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with SMTP id PAA24538 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:21:06 -0700 Received: from uis.admsec.wwu.edu (gaea.admsec.wwu.edu [140.160.249.20]) by blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id OAA05592 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:28:17 -0700 Received: from localhost (saint@localhost) by uis.admsec.wwu.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA17224 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 22:21:42 GMT Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:21:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: RE: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and CJD Voice In-Reply-To: <01BD6930.6B8D2200@jol.ctc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ***I kept reading deeper into the article, thinking perhaps that residency classification officers are especially susceptible to catching CJD. I was wondering what those strange symptoms I've been exeriencing are.... Joe St.Hilaire Western On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jolene Ramaker wrote: > 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. > > .