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TI Second case of CJD brain disorder found in France
QU Reuters North America, Thu, Dec 16, 1999
VT PARIS (Reuters) - French doctors diagnosed a second case of a human brain disorder that they suspect may be linked to beef contaminated with mad cow disease, authorities said Thursday. The diagnosis comes a week after France refused to lift a ban on British beef, which French scientists said could still carry mad cow disease that causes Creutzfeld Jacob Disease (CJD). "This (diagnosis) concerns a person of French nationality, currently being treated," the government's health authority said in a statement. This was the second case in France of the new variant of CJD, a brain wasting illness, for which there are "strong presumptions of a link with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)," it added. The illness is difficult to diagnose and is usually only confirmed with an autopsy. In this case, it was discovered through an exam of a sample taken through a biopsy, officials said. Doctors in the United Kingdom have detected 48 cases of new variant CJD and one case has been reported in Ireland. The European Commission said Tuesday it was giving France five working days to justify its continued embargo or the matter would be referred to the European Court of Justice.
IN Eine französische Behörde gab am Donnerstag, den 16.12.1999 bekannt, dass die Untersuchung einer Biopsiegehirnprobe von einem französischen Patienten die neue Variante der Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit ermittelte. Nach einem vermutlich über Injektionen mit Rinderhirn infizierten Franzosen ist dies der zweite Fall von nvCJK in Frankreich.
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