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.
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