In UK, 1 in 2,000 may be infected with Mad Cow prion

Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 18:00 in Biology & Nature

A new analysis of archived appendix samples suggests that 1 in 2,000 people in the United Kingdom may carry the abnormal prion protein (PrP) associated with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD),...

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