BSE 'cause of death'
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Your support makes all the difference.A leading scientist who believes Mad Cow Disease can be passed on to humans said last night the human form of the illness had claimed the life of a 20-year-old man.
Peter Hall, of Chester-Le-Street, Co Durham, died last week just days before his 21st birthday after being ill for two years.
Dr Harash Narang, a clinical virologist formerly with the public health laboratory service, said last night Mr Hall had died from Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease, while Mr Hall's parents, Derek and Frances Hall, called for more tests to be carried out.
The official Government view is that Mad Cow Disease - or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - cannot be transmitted to humans.
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