Human BSE

Jeffrey Almond and John Pattison
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Jeffrey Almond: the School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading
John Pattison: the Medical School, University College London

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6650, 437-438

Abstract: Two sets of studies, using different approaches, provide convincing evidence that the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is caused by the agent that is responsible for BSE in cattle. Like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease itself, vCJD is a human neurological disorder that leads to brain damage and death; but it is clinically and pathologically distinct, not least in afflicting younger people. The new studies cannot however tell us anything about a crucial issue — the future number of cases of this variant disease.

Date: 1997
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