Open AccessRisk of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in France
Author(s) -
Marc ChadeauHyam
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyh374
Subject(s) - creutzfeldt jakob syndrome , disease , virology , kuru , epidemiology , medicine , biology , pathology , scrapie , prion protein
France has the second highest number of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) cases worldwide. Imports of bovine carcasses from the UK probably constituted the main source of exposure of the French population to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agent. Meat products consumed whilst visiting the UK have also been considered as a possible source of exposure.
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