More people estimated to be vCJD carriers

Doctors have raised their estimate of the number of Britons infected with the abnormal protein that causes variant CJD, the human form of “mad cow disease”, after a survey of medical samplesaccording to a report in the Guardian. According to a report in the Guardian, some 24,000 adult Britons are now thought to carry the rogue protein after eating contaminated meat products in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but it is unclear how many of these, if any, will develop the disease. People who carry the BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) protein may also pose a risk to others if they