NEW YORK: A new study puts to rest any worries that diseases of dementia might be passed along through blood transfusions.
Recent research has shown that a number of neurological conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, can be induced in healthy laboratory animals through the injection of diseased brain tissue from human patients. This has raised concerns of the possibility of dementia diseases being transmitted between individuals, particularly through the common practice of blood transfusions.
To find out if this is a possibility, researchers at Karolinska Institutet conducted a study based on a unique Swedish-Danish transfusion database. Their results show that these diseases cannot be transmitted in this way…