Advisory committee's conclusion was based on "absence of any credible alternative"

Wickham, Anne

doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7037.1038a

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“…Bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been advanced as the most likely explanation 3. Other workers have asked why in the absence of direct evidence of a link bovine spongiform encephalopathy should be singled out ahead of microwave ovens, high voltage power lines, or organophosphorous sheep dips 20. These exposures are not confined to the United Kingdom and therefore seem less plausible explanations than bovine spongiform encephalopathy.…”

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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United Kingdom: analysis of epidemiological surveillance data for 1970-96

Zeidler

Esmonde

Silva

et al. 1997

BMJ

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Objective: To identify changes in the occurrence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease that might be related to the epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Design: Epidemiological surveillance of the United Kingdom population for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease based on (a) referral of suspected cases by neurologists, neuropathologists, and neurophysiologists and (b) death certificates. Setting: England and Wales during 1970-84, and whole of the United Kingdom during 1985-96.

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confidence: 99%