Scientists dismiss CJD outbreak fears

27 March 1998

Scientists dismiss CJD outbreak fears

TWO leading scientists dismissed fears that Britain faces an epidemic of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

Professor Alan Erbringer, an expert in auto-immune diseases, at Kings College London, and Professor John Pirt, a worldwide authority on the role of bacteria in diseases, told the BSE inquiry that beef was safe and the cull a waste of time.