Thousands may carry mad cow virus
Friday, May 21, 2004 Posted: 4:13 AM EDT (0813 GMT)
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Thousands of people may unwittingly be carrying the agent responsible for the human form of mad cow disease, according to research by British scientists, media reports said on Friday.
The scientists calculate that about 4,000 people in Britain could be carrying the prion protein responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the reports said, citing a UK government-funded study in the Journal of Pathology.
Article: http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/05/21/britain.cjd.reut/index.html