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By Hasan Suroor
LONDON, SEPT. 27. India is reported to be among the countries to which Britain exported blood products that could be infected with the human variant of the deadly mad cow disease, but it is not known whether it is among the five which have been warned by the British Government that they could be at risk. According to The Times, the British Government last week contacted five countries "identified as most at risk from the imported blood products'' but officials refused to disclose their names. "The five countries come from a longer list of 11 — including the Irish Republic, Russia, India and Brazil — to which Britain exported the suspect products in the late 1990s,'' it said. India reportedly imported more than 900 vials of albumin during that period. The Indian High Commission here declined to comment saying it was not aware of any British Government advice to India on the issue. Asked if it was possible that the Indian Government may have been informed directly, a spokesman said: "Yes.'' "The Director-General of Health Services in Delhi is the nodal agency and only they can tell you anything,'' he said. The Department of Health was quoted as saying that the advice was of a "precautionary'' nature and it was up to the countries concerned to take any action. The "warnings'' followed the discovery of two cases where, it was suspected, that the patients may have been affected by vCJD (variant Cruetzfeldt-Jacob Disease) through blood transfusions. Recently, the British Government's Chief Medical Officer, Liam Donaldson, announced that 6,000 people, who had received blood products from donations, were thought to be at risk of a vCJD infection and they were being individually contacted. They would be banned from donating blood, tissue or organs. Export of blood products were stopped by Britain in the late nineties after fears about vCJD infection, which affects the brain and results in certain death. The Government's refusal to disclose the names of the five countries, feared to be at risk, came in for criticism.
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