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Contaminated injections of growth hormone may have caused five rare cases of dementia, scientists think.

Alzheimer’s disease was passed to patients given hormones extracted from corpses, scientists have shown for the first time.

The findings may have important implications for understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease, researchers say.

The findings may have important implications for understanding and treating the disease, researchers say.

The findings may have important implications for understanding and treating the disease, researchers say.

Alzheimer's can be transmitted from person to person, a study shows - patients given a growth hormone from dead donors now have the disease.

A growth hormone given to children — which was banned in 1985 — has been shown to have caused the development of Alzheimers on a toxic protein

Patients who received contaminated growth hormone developed AD decades later. The study suggests AD is transmissible, but researchers stress it cannot be transmitted through routine medical care.

Alzheimer’s isn’t contagious. But contaminated growth hormone injections caused early-onset Alzheimer’s in some recipients, a new study suggests.

Five people who received treatment with cadaver-sourced human pituitary-derived growth hormone during childhood developed early Alzheimer’s disease.