Personal Injury Law

More Mad Cow Cases Predicted For the UK

 Scientists in the United Kingdom say there could be a "second wave" of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease -- the human form of the mad cow disease -- after discovering that some people have a genetic predisposition to the disease.

The scientists say a person's individual DNA could affect the length of time that the disease can remain in the body before symptoms develop.

A total of 167 people have died from vCJD in Britain since the mid-1990s.

For more from the London Telegraph, check this out.

Full post as published by Mad Cow Blog on December 08, 2008 (boomark / email).