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Mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease--is there a link?
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 1996
Rist C E, Nielsen J O
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The report of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Surveillance Unit from March 1996 regarding 10 cases of a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in young adults caused a great deal of uproar when it was suggested that a possible link with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) could not be excluded. BSE was first noticed in 1986 after the introduction of modified rendering systems in the manufacture of meat and bone...
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