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Committee meeting today on mad cow disease

27 November 2013

Professor John Collinge (UCL Institute of Neurology) comments on data suggesting 1 in 2,000 people in the UK are carriers of vCJD , in light of a parliamentary committee on the issue being held today, saying: "These are diseases that incubate silently in humans for decades." Listen: BBC R4 Today (from 55 mins)