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Published online 6 February 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010208-5
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Old epidemic sheds new light on vCJD
Frozen blood has given up the genetic secrets of a past prion disease epidemic.
New evidence from an old epidemic could help those trying to estimate how many people may be incubating variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) -- the human form of mad cow disease. So say scientists in the United States who have studied DNA extracted from victims of the first documented prion disease, kuru1.
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