There are some doubts in the medical world about the link between socalled mad cow disease and new variant
Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (nvCJD) where rates of new cases has remained fewer than 25 a year.
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD) is a human version of the disease.
Beginning next spring, thousands of additional people who have lived in or visited Europe will be barred from donating blood as a new precaution against the spread of variant
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease that apparently is spread by eating infected beef.
The term "vCJD" refers to variant
Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (sometimes also called "new variant CJD" or "nvCJD"), a form of the disease that scientists have shown is caused by exposure to mad cow disease.
Nearly 100 deaths overseas have been directly linked to the virus by way of new-variant
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (vCJD), hundreds of thousands of animals have been destroyed across the European continent, and devastating financial effects are stampeding through the world's beef market.
Originally discovered in Britain in 1996, BSE has been linked to the fatal human illness variant
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (vCJD).
However in March 1996 a new strain of the human form,
Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, was confirmed.
They are investigating the Government's handling of the outbreak of Mad Cow Disease (BSE) and its links to the human degenerative brain condition
Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (CJD).
It covers for example
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease among others and considers these difficult and devastating conditions simply and in a very straightforward manner.
Professor Behan, speaking in a tele- vision interview on Friday night, said he had no doubts that she was suffering from
Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease.
He added that the experts had proved no link between BSE in cattle and the new strain of
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease discovered in ten young people.