HGH Linked to Brain Eater (Mad Cow but not from cows

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,62998,00.html

HGH Linked to Brain Eater By Kristen Philipkoski
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,62998,00.html

02:00 AM Apr. 09, 2004 PT

A type of human growth hormone used mostly in the 1970s has caused 26 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob, the brain-wasting illness associated with mad-cow disease, according to new study results from the National Institutes of Health.

Before 1980, scientists typically took human growth hormone, or HGH, from the pituitary glands of cadavers to treat children with stunted growth. If those cadavers happened to have died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD, the illness was passed on to the HGH recipients. About 7,700 patients in the United States received HGH from cadavers


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[girl gone mad]

1. This has been known..

for quite some time now. A friend of mine had HGH injections as a child and has been living with the threat of contracting CJD for the last few years.