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	Here we go again

eemorningwood

12-10-2006 9:38 AM

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health, madcow, vcjd

eemorningwood says:

Thousands of people are at risk from an outbreak of variant Creut-zfeld-Jakob disease spread by contaminated blood or infected surgical instruments

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