NR AMXH
AU Zaaijer,H.L.
TI [Confusion surrounding bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and the risk of new variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease]
OT Verwarring rond boviene spongiforme encefalopathie (BSE) en het risico op de nieuwe variant van de ziekte van Creutzfeldt-Jakob
QU Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 2000 Nov 25; 144(48): 2288-90
KI Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2001 Mar 10;145(10):501-2. PMID: 11268917
PT journal article; review; review, tutorial
AB There is a lot of confusing news regarding the risks of consuming beef for contracting variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. Bureaucratic inertia and political expediency are fueled by the lack of pathogenetic and epidemiologic understanding of the mode of transmission. Consumers discard beef from their diet, which may be the least contaminated tissue, but other meat products, of which the risks are probably much higher, continue to enjoy free international trade and may be used in the human diet. British beef may be less harmful than French sausage. In addition, criminal and fraudulent practices pose a considerable threat to which an appropriate political answer has yet to be formulated.
ZR 19
MH Animal; Cattle; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/epidemiology/*prevention &; control/*transmission; Disease Transmission/prevention & control/statistics & numerical data; Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform/epidemiology/*transmission; English Abstract; Europe/epidemiology; Human; *Legislation, Food; Meat/virology; Meat Products/*virology; Risk
AD Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit, afd. Klinische Microbiologie en Infectiepreventie, Postbus 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam. hans.zaaijer@azvu.nl
SP niederländisch
PO Niederlande