AR-News: (IT) New mad cow strain similar to human CJD

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[from United Press International]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Italian researchers said Monday they have
discovered a new strain of mad cow disease that is very similar to a
spontaneously occurring form of a deadly human brain disorder called
sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Scientists previously thought the consumption of meat infected with the
mad cow pathogen could only cause a specific form of the fatal disorder
known as variant CJD.

The new finding, which appears in the online early edition of the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, increases the
possibility some cases of sporadic CJD also could be due to mad
cow-infected meat, said Salvatore Monaco, a co-author of the study and a
professor in the department of Neurological and Visual Science at
Policlinico G.B. Rossi in Verona, Italy.
...
The new study "is just another piece of evidence that some of the sporadic
CJD cases ... could be associated with the consumption of infected meat,"
Michael Hansen, a microbiologist with the watchdog group Consumers Union
in Yonkers, N.Y., told United Press International.

full story:
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040216-043819-7124r

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