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The spectrum of safety: variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United Kingdom.
Seminars in hematology - 1 Jul 2003
Ironside James W
Abstract excerpt
Beginning in the mid 1980s, an epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was seen among cattle in the United Kingdom. The cause was recognized as a prion agent transmitted in the meat and bone meal products used as animal feed, a practice that was banned in 1988. Unfortunately, by that time, infected cattle had already entered the human food supply, and by 1996, several individuals were identified with a...
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