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Published online 12 July 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020708-18
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Swiss CJD rise raises alarm
BSE-related brain disease could emerge in different form.
The number of people dying from sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has risen sharply in Switzerland. The finding is raising fears that 'mad cow disease' could have spread to humans in another form1.
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