The new variant of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease accounts for no relative increase of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease mortality rate in the United Kingdom; this fits ill with the new variant being the consequence of consumption of food infected with the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy

BMC Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-5

  Laprevotte, Ivan ^a   Hénaut, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CANADA; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 3042628814     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-3-25     Document Type: Review

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