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Nature Medicine 6, 1301 (2000)
doi:10.1038/82074
Europe increases precautions against BSE transmission
Karen Birmingham1
- London
Within weeks of the release of the report by the Phillips inquiry into the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis in the UK, concern about the zoonotic disease is spreading across Europe.Several countries have increased efforts to make certain that the general public is not eating BSE-infected meat, and scientists in the UK are recalculating the potential size of the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) epidemic following the death of an elderly man.
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