Strasbourg, 12/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a recommendation aimed at preventing the transmission of the new variant of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease through blood transfusions. The authorities of 43 Member States of the Council of Europe, including the fifteen members of the European Union, are invited to take a series of precautionary measures to strengthen their regulations on blood and plasma. These measures mainly cover: - the...