French doctors on trial for CJD deaths after hormone 'misuse ...
Half of the 120000 organs acquired between 1983 and 1988 came from corpses in Bulgaria and Hungary. Many appear to have been procured ... World news guide ...
French doctors on trial for CJD deaths after hormone 'misuse ...
hese hormones in 1985 following the death of a 21-year-old American which suggested a possible link to the debilitating and fatal brain disease CJD. rosecutors argue that those requirements were largely ignored.In 1992, after the death of a 15-year-old from CJD in France, dozens of other families decided to sue. disease that often lies dormant for many years.One victim, Bernadette, who received weekly growth hormone injections in her early teens, was struck at 18 by sudden anxiety attacks and garbled speech interspersed with bouts of flu-like symptoms. ossessed," her mother told Le Monde.Baffled doctors suggested Bernadette had "hysteria" and that the family needed therapy.
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