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Genetic finding raises fear of wider vCJD spread

19 May 2006

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) may be able to infect a wider population that previously thought, raising the possibility that the relatively few known cases may be part of a larger epidemic, suggest researchers here.

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