Second CJD case in France


17 December 1999



Second CJD case in France


FRENCH health authorities have discovered a second case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the human brain disorder believed to be related to the consumption of beef contaminated with BSE.

A 36-year-old woman has been found to have the disease.

Doctors have detected 48 cases of CJD in Britain so far.

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