News

'The Prion Puzzle' by A. Aguzzi in 'Project Syndicate'
29 October 2012 | Technical news (uncommented clippings)Please see the summary article 'The Prion Puzzle' on BSE and other prion diseases by our member Professor Adriano Aguzzi on the website of 'Project Syndicate'.
Survey underlines need for minimizing secondary human exposure to prions
16 August 2012 | Official publicationsThe Health Protection Agency of the UK has released its summary results of the second national survey of abnormal prion prevalence in archived appendix specimens. The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) TSE Risk Assessment Subgroup published a comment on the these results in a position paper.
First Report of vCJD in Turkey - Diagnosis unlikely
20 March 2012 | Technical news (uncommented clippings)After a recent report about a 'probable variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease' case, the EUROCJD group replies in a public letter why it considers the diagnosis 'unlikely'. The group states that 'the diagnosis of vCJD cannot be regarded as correct unless there is neuropathological verification of this diagnosis'.
By categories
Position Papers Technical news (uncommented clippings) Technical news (commented) Official publications News on TAFSBy threads
BSE in USABy tags
Subscribe
If you are not a member of the TAFS forum you may subscribe to our news stream. You will not be able to see some the news in full (for members only), but we aim to share as much as possible publicly. Just enter your email address: