Two sets of studies, using different approaches, provide convincing evidence that the new variant of Creutzfeldt — Jakob disease is caused by the agent that is responsible for BSE in cattle. But they cannot tell us anything about the future number of cases of this variant disease.
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Almond, J., Pattison, J. Human BSE. Nature 389, 437–438 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/38876
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