Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is again turning his head scientists. But this time it is in Britain, when a new case detected in France in June 2012 was to 27 the number of infected people (including 26 deaths), creating concern among health authorities.
British researchers, who published their study in the medical journal BMJ, have shown that on Columbia in 2000 would be carrying the prion responsible for mad cow disease, which has 177 victims in Britain in the 90s, 100% mortality. This study, the most comprehensive ever conducted, however, can not predict how many carriers are actually likely to develop far this neurodegenerative disease, incurable and always fatal.
Developing research for blood tests“The frequency of one in 2000 is quite large and poses particular problems for the risk of secondary transmission” through organ donation or blood analysis for Metronews Professor Stéphane haick, research director at Inserm, and coordinator of the National Reference Center pray at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. In France, no studies are currently underway, but it is not a priority for health authorities, to the extent that “the exposure of the French population to BSE rate is ten times lower than in Britain “, says Professor haick.
No need to deploy considerable resources to an insignificant result, therefore. For researchers from Inserm, there is mostly a lesson from such studies: “We need more research on the development of a diagnostic blood test to detect asymptomatic carriers.” Do not worry, in any case: the dietary risk is long past
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