Footnote

a CJD (Creutzfeld-Jacob disease) is a human condition akin to BSE and caused by a similar agent. Dementia develops rapidly, and a sufferer may be helpless within a year of diagnosis. CJD can be transmitted through blood transfusions and body tissue transplants. Close to 2,000 persons in Britain and 7,000 in the United States are at risk as carriers because they received injections of growth hormones taken from the pituitary glands of dead people. Says Dr. Paul Brown, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health: “Any organ from a patient with CJ disease is a potential time-bomb.”