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vCJD: 30 years later
Author(s) -
Greener Mark
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.382
Subject(s) - bovine spongiform encephalopathy , history , medicine , disease , pathology , prion protein
Thirty years old, a crisis took hold of British farming when it was discovered that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cows could leap the species barrier from cows to humans. Mark Greener examines the nature of vCJD and whether any cure is in prospect.