Proposed link between transmissible spongiform encephalopathies of man and animals.

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Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany.

Published: November 1995

A link between scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is likely to exist. Based on old observations on scrapie, new experiments on bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and modern reviews on CJD, my proposal fits general rules of virus transmission.

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