Abstract: In Britain there is widespread concern that the CJD virus could
strike again. This is because research points to its long incubation period.
The original 'Mad' cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE),
initially emerged in Britain in 1986 as a result of animal feed when beef
offal was fed to cattle, which are natural grass-grazers. There were reports
that there were an estimated 2 million children who were prescribed BSE risk
medicines by the department of health and some drug companies responded to the
outbreak by quickly switching to non-UK sources for bovine material for their
vaccines. The key issue is how long stocks of these medicines continued to be
used until they were all exhausted. There was apparently no with drawl by the
drugs makers and they were only required to terminate their manufacture in
March 1989. The impact was a long duration in eradicating the UK-sourced
material from the manufacturing process that the government admitted. There
needs to be a greater application of the epidemiological studies of prion
transmission, that would reduce the infectivity of human tissues, and the
efficacy of removing microbes by de toxificating their manufacture.
Keywords: CJD virus, transmission, pharmaceuticals, group claims