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Transplanted Nerve Tissue Can Cause Human 'Mad Cow' Disease

20 April 2006

THURSDAY, April 20, 2006 - (HealthDay News) - Between 1970 and 2003, transplanted human tissue was responsible for a total of seven cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - the human form of mad cow disease - in the U.K., a new study finds. Read more on Forbes - USA