Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, Montana 59840, USA
Emerging evidence supports a connection between "new variant" Creutzfeldt−Jakob disease in humans and "mad cow" disease but is it proof?
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