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New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Infectious disease clinics of North America - 1 Mar 1998
Schonberger L B
Abstract excerpt
New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) are invariably fatal, subacute degenerative diseases of the brain that are classified as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. BSE was first diagnosed in 1986 as part of an ongoing epizootic in the United Kingdom that was amplified by the feeding of rendered bovine meat-and-bone meal to young calves. As of June 1997, a...
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