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Mad Cow Disease and CJD

How a disease affecting cattle was transferred to the human population in Britain. Hear from two people who lost family members to variant CJD a devastating brain illness.

In March 1996 the British government admitted that there was a probable connection between a disease affecting cattle and a devastating brain illness affecting humans, called variant CJD. A ban was introduced against the sale of beef on the bone. But for some people it was too late, members of their families were already sick.

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