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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Background, Evolution, and Current Concerns

Internet URL

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no1/brown.htm  

Sponsoring Agency

National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Description

A perspective of the epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the United Kingdom and its relationship to the current outbreak of human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, most probably resulting from the consumption of beef products contaminated by central nervous system tissue.

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Review Date

4/24/2007