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Creutzfeldt-Jakob researchers seek greater access to data on cases

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) researchers opine that publishing data about suspected cases of diseases before their actual confirmation can be misleading. A new variant of the disease probably related to the consumption of beef contaminated with the agent causing bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a cause of tension in the scientific community. Robert Will, head of the CJD surveillance unit argues that disclosing details about suspect cases will result in making people believe that they are actual cases. Cerebral biopsies in the cases still fail to confirm the actual cause of the disease.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Scientists, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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Doubts over ability to monitor risks of BSE spread to sheep: Has 'mad cow disease' - BSE - infected sheep in the United Kingdom?

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Scientists agree that thee is a risk that BSE could have passed to sheep and goat flocks in the UK and elsewhere. Sheep in the UK had been fed BSE-contaminated meat and bone meal until the feed ban in July 1988, and experiments have shown that sheep can succumb to BSE if fed infected cattle brain. It is not known if BSE has entered the sheep population in the UK, but because the symptoms cannot be distinguished from scrapie, it could be going undetected. Further research is needed to asses the dangers of sheep BSE according to many scientists.

Diseases, Sheep

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Brain mix-up leaves BSE research in turmoil

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Research into the potential of sheep contracting the cattle disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been halted after animal health scientist discovered they had been testing cows brains for 5 years instead of sheeps brains.

Animal health

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