[The risk of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the Netherlands and the effect of preventive measures].

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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a fatal and untreatable neurological disease, in which pathogenic prions (PrPSc) are involved. There is convincing epidemiological and experimental evidence that vCJD is a human expression of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The risk of transmission of pathogenic prions which cause vCJD to humans is influenced by the species barrier, genetic susceptibility of the...

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