UK prepares to announce prion-proof reprocessing
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The UK government is preparing to announce measures aimed at eliminating the risk of surgical transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in reprocessed instruments, Nigel Tomlinson, chief scientific advisor to NHS Estates, has told Clinica. Within the next six months the government expects to issue advice on how to eliminate the infectivity of the prion protein associated with CJD by effectively making the molecule benign, he said.