The NHS has failed to use an effective method of sterilising surgical instruments contaminated with the human form of “mad cow” disease ... to the House of Commons science and technology ...

occur directly from one person to another via routes such as blood transfusions and surgical operations, despite instruments being decontaminated routinely before being used. Scientists based at ...

It was a surprisingly large shop with rows of costumes, elaborate masks, makeup supplies ... One was a mad scientist replete with a dirty lab coat, a blood-stained surgical mask, and black ...

It follows similar findings in 1999 that surgical instruments were behind dozens of UK patients being infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the human strain of so-called “mad cow ...