Risk Perception and Communiciation Publications The Application of the Precautionary Principle to the Blood System: The Canadian Blood System’s vCJD Donor Deferral Policy    precautionaryprincipleTMR.pdf   Get Acrobat Reader You can never be too careful: Thanks to the precautionary principle, we may have saved our blood supply from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, says Dr. Kumanan Wilson (Copied from Globe and Mail)    vCJDComment.htm The reporting of theoretical health risks by the media: Canadian newspaper reporting of potential blood transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (from BMC Public Health)    MediaCJD.PDF   Get Acrobat Reader Transfusion Transmission of vCJD: A crisis avoided? (Lancet)    CJDcomment.pdf   Get Acrobat Reader

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