TWO more people are suspected to have died from the virulent new strain of CJD that has been linked to beef infected with the so called mad cow disease, British government scientists said yesterday.
The news of the new cases came from Prof John Pattison, chairman of the expert advisory's committee, which spent last weekend deliberating on the risk to humans from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
The two new cases are now being examined by the CJD surveillance unit in Edinburgh, which will try to determine if they died from the new strain of the disease.
