Mad Cows and CJD
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Mad Cows, Demented Humans and Food
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJO) and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) belong to a distinct group of fatal transmissible degenerative encephalopathies (TOEs) of animals and humans (Table 1). The classical, sporadic form of CJO affects around one or two per million of the human population worldwide each year, causing death at a median age of around 66. However, it was reported in 1996 that 1...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1017/s0195941700004069