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Blood test may screen for BSE

(World health - EU Monitor 29/01/2009)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers at the University of Calgary have developed a blood test that can diagnose fatal chronic wasting disease in elk, and believe it may provide a cheap way to screen cattle for mad cow disease. The test looks for signs of damaged cells in the blood. It may also offer a way to diagnose people with a related disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD, they said.

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