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French re-testing 1971 case for vCJD
PARIS, March 31 (UPI) -- French researchers are re-analyzing the brain of a woman who died in 1971 for possible human mad cow disease, United Press International has learned.
If the woman did have human mad cow, known formally as variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease or vCJD, it would suggest the deadly brain-wasting illness began infecting people more than 20 years earlier than previously thought.
The first recognized case of vCJD, which humans can contract from eating beef products contaminated with mad cow disease, was seen in 1995 in the United Kingdom.
As reported by UPI last week, a former scientist for the U.S. National Institutes of...
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