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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Scientists Cut Projection for Human "Mad Cow" Disease
September 9th, 2000
Scientists have reduced their estimate of how many British people might develop a deadly brain disorder linked to mad cow disease. As few as 63 and as many as 136,000 cases of so-called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) could eventually appear, according to a new analysis of data through 1999. About 40% of the population is believed to have a genetic predisposition to the disease. The analysis was published August 10, 2000, in the journal Nature by Neil Ferguson and his colleagues at the University of Oxford. Earlier studies by the same group suggested a maximum of 500,000 cases. There have been 79 confirmed...
Source: Pain & Central Nervous System Week (2000-09-09)
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