Call for inquiry into Kent CJD cluster


05 August 1997


Call for inquiry into Kent CJD cluster


THE House of Commons health committee chairman has called for a judicial inquiry into the cluster of cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) around Ashford, Kent.


There have been six deaths in the area, the latest confirmed yesterday when it was announced that the wife of a farm-worker had died from CJD.

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