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AU Warden,J.
TI Call for inquiry into CJD cluster
QU British Medical Journal 1997 Saturday 9 August; 315(7104)
PT Letter
VT
The new chairman of the Commons health select committee, Labour MP David Hinchliffe, has asked the government to set up a judicial inquiry into the issue of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and a possible link with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.
The inquiry would also look at why Ashford in Kent has become associated with a handful of deaths from CJD. Mrs Sue Carey, who died in March aged 36, has now been confirmed to have had new variant CJD. Mrs Carey was living on a farm at Mersham, Kent, when the first case of BSE in cattle was identified nearby in 1985. A rendering plant in the area has also been under suspicion for spreading effluent, including boiled cattle remains.
There are now 21 definite and probable cases of new variant CJD, of whom 20 have died.
John Warden, parliamentary correspondent, BMJ
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SP englisch