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• Mad cow disease fears rise

  
  A TIME'S MEMORY — Authority: 160
  Unusual case of 30-year-old man prompts scientists to reassess prevalence of vCJD More people may be incubating variant CJD, the human version of so-called "mad cow disease", than was previously thought, according to scientists who today report an unusual case of the disease. All those tested worldwide since 1994 ...
  5 days ago

• Mad cow disease could return in second wave

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  An unusual case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease, has raised fears that a second wave of cases are yet to be discovered.
  6 days ago

• SaBTO Recommends Use Of P-Capt(R) Prion Reduction Filter To Protect Children From VCJD Blood Transmission

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 703
  ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TSX:PLI) ("ProMetic") and MacoPharma SA ("MacoPharma") announce that the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs ("SaBTO"), an independent Committee that advises the UK Department of Health ("DoH"), has recommended the adoption of the P-Capt® prion reduction filter ...
  4 weeks ago

• Researchers Find New Piece Of BSE Puzzle

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 703
  A new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) could be a step closer based on new results from scientists at the University of Leeds. The team has found that a protein called Glypican-1 plays a key role in the development of BSE.
  4 weeks ago

• Brain disease resistance gene evolves in Papua New Guinea comm...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by scientists in the UK.
  4 weeks ago

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