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Nature 429, 331 (27 May 2004) | doi:10.1038/429331a

Tissue survey raises spectre of 'second wave' of vCJD

Jim Giles

Britain's epidemic of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) could be worse than current death rates predict, a survey of a marker for the condition in body tissue suggests.The disease, thought to be contracted by eating beef from cattle infected with mad cow disease, was first seen in Britain in 1995.

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