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Marc Turner, who studies prions in blood at Edinburgh Blood Transfusion Center in Scotland, calls the new report "very promising work. Each of the 3 patients had received a blood transfusion from a donor who subsequently developed clinical vCJD, which indicates that transfusion caused the infection. Although the story is now widely discredited, the earliest blood transfusion is said to have occurred in 1492, when the blood of 3 young boys was allegedly transfused into the dying Pope Innocent VIII. |
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blood transfusion - the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery