Should people be tested for mad cow disease?

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Mad Cow
WOULD you want to know if you were carrying human mad cow disease? Maybe not, but what if you'd given blood and maybe passed vCJD on to other people. Should they be tested?

No routine test is available yet, but that hasn't stopped the UK Health Protection Agency thrashing out the ethical issues before one comes along. On 19 October it launched a public consultation to gauge how people feel about the prospect of testing.

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