The new variant of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease accounts for no relative increase of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease mortality rate in the United Kingdom; this fits ill with the new variant being the consequence of consumption of food infected with the agent of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Peer Review reports

Original Submission
25 Apr 2003	Submitted	Original manuscript
28 May 2003	Reviewed	Reviewer Report - David Mathiesom Taylor
Resubmission - Version 2
	Submitted	Manuscript version 2
Publishing
6 Aug 2003	Editorially accepted
6 Aug 2003	Article published	10.1186/1471-2458-3-25

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