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October 22, 2008
The controversial test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics.
In Finding holes in the brain: to test or not to test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob?, Sandberg writes that a new test for carriers of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is under development. It raises an ethical problem: should we test for untreatable deadly illnesses? And might it reduce the amount of blood donations?
Posted by Waldemar at October 22, 2008 07:15 AM