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Reply to "predicting the size of the epidemic of the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease" by Neil Ferguson, Christl A. Donnelly, Azra C. Ghani and Roy M. Anderson

1999-01-01

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The authors welcome the debate hosted by the British Food Journal on the likely size of the outbreak of New Variant CJD, if it is caused by eating BSE-contaminated beef. We are pleased that there is a substantial measure of agreement between our estimates and those of Ferguson et al., for the most likely number of deaths, even if there is disagreement on the upper bound. We note that our low predictions for vCJD d...

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Literature Corpus work: 1da14603-fa34-5429-84a6-12d675fd2a89
DOI: 10.1108/00070709910272150

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