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Nature 410, 502 (29 March 2001) | doi:10.1038/35069207

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Butchery lay behind CJD cluster

David Adam

Traditional butchery practices are the most likely cause of Britain's first cluster of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) in the Leicestershire village of Queniborough, an official public health report concluded last week . The investigation into the deaths of five people from vCJD, the human form of BSE, also pins down the estimate of the disease's incubation period to between 10 and 16 years.