French doctors of the mass infection of children accused of BSE

French study of doctors accused of mass infection French children incurable Kroytsfeldta-Jakob disease (mad cow disease). As a result of the investigation, which lasted nearly 17 years, are accused of actions that have led to the deaths of 110 patients. Died of an incurable disease children in the second half of the 80 were infected as a result of growth hormone injections, the only source of which in these years were tissue samples from deceased persons. These injections are used not only for growth hormone deficiency, but also stimulate the growth of healthy children. In most industrialized countries, the use of growth hormone corpses after the first case of BSE infection in the United States was banned in 1985 diagnosed. But in France used the material further to 1988. In this case, after the investigation, collection produced cadaver tissue with severe health standards, and the parents of children injected with concealed information about the potential risks of the treatment. Mad cow disease is a slowly progressive, and the symptoms of the disease usually appear years after infection. In France, the first case of injections of growth hormone children in 1990. In the following years the number rose to 110, but experts do not rule out the development of the deadly disease in other patients. At the trial opened on Wednesday in the court seven doctors, pharmacist and former employees of the Ministry of Health. They were charged with fraud, abuse patients with biomaterials, as well as serious injury and homicide. If found guilty, the accused, they are a penalty of imprisonment of three to ten years.