Vaccine has nothing to do with human BSE
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Last Update: 2001-12-19
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Lead: London News: British scientists studying human BSE have ruled out polio vaccination as a route of transmission of BSE after examining two patients who received the same batch of polio vaccine Peter Smith, of the British government's mad cow disease Advisory Committee, said at a press conference that the committee had found no link between mad cow disease and the vaccine The researchers investigated vaccine factors when looking at common factors in patients with a variant of Jakob's disease (vCJD) Two patients received the same standard polio vaccination Because the disease can be infected by calf serum, scientists are urged to further investigate the cause of the disease Scientists have found that receiving a specific vaccine made from locally produced cattle in the UK is not much more likely to develop vCJD than those that have not Since doctors identified vCJD as a new rare brain atrophy disease in 1996, the new type of Jakob's disease has claimed more than 100 British lives VCJD and BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) are caused by prion transmission in nerve cells Many scientists believe that humans suffer from vCJD because they eat meat from animals infected with mad cow disease The investigation found that prions from vCJD patients and cattle infected with mad cow disease have similar protein sequences, at the same time, they are different from those of standard CJD patients (author:) share to feed Weibo share to:
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