Brown P
Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md 20892, USA.
JAMA. 1997 Sep 24;278(12):1008-11.
Some human cases of the transmissible neurodegenerative disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease recently seen in Great Britain are thought to have resulted from eating beef infected with the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Reasons for and against this presumption are explained, and the question of a similar situation occurring in countries other than Britain-in particular, the United States-is discussed in terms of the existence of scrapie (in sheep) or unrecognized bovine spongiform encephalopathy (in cattle), the practice of recycling nonedible sheep and cattle tissue for animal nutrition, and precautionary measures already taken or under consideration by government agencies
最近在英国发现的一些人类传染性神经退行性疾病克雅氏病病例，被认为是由于食用了感染牛海绵状脑病病原体的牛肉所致。文中解释了支持和反对这一推测的理由，并从羊瘙痒病（在绵羊中）或未被识别的牛海绵状脑病（在牛中）的存在、将不可食用的绵羊和牛组织回收用于动物营养的做法，以及政府机构已经采取或正在考虑的预防措施等方面，讨论了除英国以外的其他国家，特别是美国出现类似情况的问题。
