No increase in mortality found among occupations exposed to BSE

People working in contact with materials that might be infected with bovine spongiform encephalitis show no higher mortality than normal from Creutzfeld-Jakob disease or other dementias or any increase over time. Aylin and others used death registration data in England and Wales to study mortality among farmers, butchers and abattoir workers, and veterinarians from 1979-80 to 1982-96 (p 1044). Their findings are reassuring, but surveillance needs to be continued since the incubation period of new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease is unknown.

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Mortality from dementia in occupations at risk of exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy: analysis of death registrations • Commentary: Uncertainty over length of incubation tempers optimism

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