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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/health

David Byrne says there should be no hasty conclusions about transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Brussels, 18/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - The day after the speech by the British Secretary of State for Health, John Reid, who noted another fatal case of the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a patient who had apparently not eaten beef contaminated by the bovine spongiform encephalopathy prion, Commissioner David Byrne said no hasty conclusions should be made concerning the way the disease is transmitted. The case in hand does not allow transmission by blood to be excluded, but this has...

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