Likelihood of a large vCJD epidemic remains small claim researchers
The likelihood of a large number of future cases of vCJD remains small claim researchers from Imperial College London....... According to research published today in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, the team believe there will be around 70 future cases of vCJD arising from the consumption of BSE-infected beef. At most this could rise to a total of around 600 deaths, although the researcher...New study raises questions about the number of people in the UK who could be incubating vCJD
A team of UK scientists found that 3 out of 12,674 stored appendix and tonsil samples showed evidence of the prion protein associated with vCJD, but urge caution about the way these results are interpreted. The research is published this week in The Journal of Pathology.... ...The study aimed to help health policymakers estimate the numbers of people who could become ill from vCJD by assessing th...Urgent action is needed to protect the public from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a senior member of the Medical Research Council writes in this week's BMJ....... Dr Sheila Bird argues that the death of the first probable victim of vCJD from a blood transfusion means that steps must be taken to define the rights and responsibilities of those at risk, as well as the general public.........Only one further person from the Republic of Ireland (ROI) is likely to die from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) as a consequence of eating BSE infected meat, say scientists. The prediction, published this week in BMC Infectious Diseases, will reassure the Irish who suffered the second highest incidence of BSE worldwide after the UK....... 1,303 positive cases of BSE have been confirmed...