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For Prion Diseases, It's Eat Now, Pay Later

Neil Osterweil
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco | June 22, 2006

"Incubation periods of infection with human prions can exceed 50 years," Dr. Collinge and colleagues concluded. "In human infection with BSE prions, species-barrier effects, which are characteristic of cross-species transmission, would be expected to further increase the mean and range of incubation periods, compared with recycling of prions within species. These data should inform attempts to model variant CJD epidemiology."

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