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(2)Japan's 1st case of human mad cow disease confirmed

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuyuki Kitamoto (L), a professor at Tohoku University who heads the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's experts committee on Creutzfeldt-Jacob and other diseases, briefs reporters about Japan's first CJD patient.

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Japan's 1st case of human mad cow disease confirmed

TOKYO, Japan - Health ministry experts confirmed in an emergency meeting Japan's first case of the human variant of mad cow disease in a Japanese man who died in December. The ministry suspects the patient in his 50s was infected with the variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in Britain where he had stayed for about a month in around 1989.

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State, CJD plaintiffs sign settlement

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi (L) shakes hands with representatives of plaintiffs who sued the state and companies for failing to ensure the safety of human dura mater transplants at the ministry in Tokyo on March 25 after singing a settlement. Patients represented developed the fatal brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease following transplant operations.

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Gov't accepts court settlement in CJD lawsuits

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi announces at the Diet on March 1 that the government accepts a court-brokered settlement of lawsuits filed by on behalf of 20 people who contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) from transplants of infected dura mater. The first CJD lawsuit was filed at the Otsu District Court in 1996 and the second the following year at the Tokyo District Court.

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Courts ask state, firms to compensate all 20 CJD plaintiffs

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs in a suit demanding compensation for the victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) enter the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 22, carrying photos of those who have died of the disease. The Tokyo and Otsu district courts recommended the state and companies sued by (CJD) victims jointly pay 60 million yen, on average, in redress to each of the 20 plaintiffs.

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CJD families, supporters stage protest for quick settlement

TOKYO, Japan - Families and supporters of victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) stage a sit-in in front of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 6 to urge the government to quickly reach a settlement in two CJD lawsuits.

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CJD plaintiffs rap gov't, 2 firms for lack of remorse

TOKYO, Japan - Isamu Ikefuji (L), Kazumasa Yoshimura (C) and Kimie Maeda, who have filed damage suits over cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) contracted from human dura mater implants imported from Germany, speak at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 14. They have complained of the lack of remorse expressed by the Japanese government and the two related firms with regard to the victims.

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Gov't, firms agree to seek CJD suit settlement

OTSU, Japan - plaintiffs and lawyers give a news conference Nov. 22, 2001 after they agreed with the government, a German dura mater product maker and its Japanese importer to seek a settlement in litigation concerning Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) patients demanding compensation.

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Sakaguchi says state aims at early settlement of CJD suits

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi tells reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on Nov. 22 that the government will try to reach an early settlement in two damages suits over Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) contracted from transplants of infected dura mater. The Tokyo and Otsu district courts delivered opinions earlier this month which held the government partly responsible for 28 people in Japan contracting the brain-wasting disease.

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Court deems state, firms partly responsible for spread of CJD+

OTSU, Japan - With a photo of his diseased wife in hand, Sanichi Tani is moved to tears after the Otsu District Court recognized partial responsibility on the part of the state and pharmaceutical companies for the spread of the brain-wasting Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and urged that settlements be reached in a damages suit Nov. 14, 2002. Tani is leader of the plaintiffs in the suit.

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Gov't, firms agree to seek CJD suit settlement

OTSU, Japan - plaintiffs and lawyers give a news conference Nov. 22, 2001 after they agreed with the government, a German dura mater product maker and its Japanese importer to seek a settlement in litigation concerning Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) patients demanding compensation.

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Sakaguchi says state aims at early settlement of CJD suits

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi tells reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on Nov. 22 that the government will try to reach an early settlement in two damages suits over Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) contracted from transplants of infected dura mater. The Tokyo and Otsu district courts delivered opinions earlier this month which held the government partly responsible for 28 people in Japan contracting the brain-wasting disease.

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CJD plaintiffs rap gov't, 2 firms for lack of remorse

TOKYO, Japan - Isamu Ikefuji (L), Kazumasa Yoshimura (C) and Kimie Maeda, who have filed damage suits over cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) contracted from human dura mater implants imported from Germany, speak at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 14. They have complained of the lack of remorse expressed by the Japanese government and the two related firms with regard to the victims.

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Japan's 1st case of human mad cow disease confirmed

TOKYO, Japan - Health ministry experts confirmed in an emergency meeting Japan's first case of the human variant of mad cow disease in a Japanese man who died in December. The ministry suspects the patient in his 50s was infected with the variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in Britain where he had stayed for about a month in around 1989. (Kyodo)

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(2)Japan's 1st case of human mad cow disease confirmed

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuyuki Kitamoto (L), a professor at Tohoku University who heads the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's experts committee on Creutzfeldt-Jacob and other diseases, briefs reporters about Japan's first CJD patient. (Kyodo)

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State, CJD plaintiffs sign settlement

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi (L) shakes hands with representatives of plaintiffs who sued the state and companies for failing to ensure the safety of human dura mater transplants at the ministry in Tokyo on March 25 after singing a settlement. Patients represented developed the fatal brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease following transplant operations.

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Gov't accepts court settlement in CJD lawsuits

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi announces at the Diet on March 1 that the government accepts a court-brokered settlement of lawsuits filed by on behalf of 20 people who contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) from transplants of infected dura mater. The first CJD lawsuit was filed at the Otsu District Court in 1996 and the second the following year at the Tokyo District Court.

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CJD families, supporters stage protest for quick settlement

TOKYO, TOKYO - Families and supporters of victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) stage a sit-in in front of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 6 to urge the government to quickly reach a settlement in two CJD lawsuits.

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Courts ask state, firms to compensate all 20 CJD plaintiffs

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs in a suit demanding compensation for the victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) enter the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 22, carrying photos of those who have died of the disease. The Tokyo and Otsu district courts recommended the state and companies sued by (CJD) victims jointly pay 60 million yen, on average, in redress to each of the 20 plaintiffs.