id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-284893-qi6dkcb3 Wilson, Kumanan Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and the Canadian blood system after the tainted blood tragedy 2006-10-02 .txt text/plain 6797 297 46 The objective of our overall study was to understand and compare the decision-making processes concerning two Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease-related decisions: a 1995 withdrawal of blood products from a classical CJD donor and a 1999 decision to defer donations from individuals who had traveled to the United Kingdom for 6 months during the peak of the BSE outbreak (1980) (1981) (1982) (1983) (1984) (1985) (1986) (1987) (1988) (1989) (1990) (1991) (1992) (1993) (1994) (1995) (1996) . In Canada three pieces of information played an important role in influencing the decision-making process leading to the donor deferral decision: (1) the risk of transmission of vCJD via blood products, (2) the impact of donor deferral on the blood supply, and (3) the degree of reduction in the blood supply the blood system could sustain. ./cache/cord-284893-qi6dkcb3.txt ./txt/cord-284893-qi6dkcb3.txt