The occurrence of the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease, the most researched form of the human prion diseases, recently described in Great Britain and France, causes great concern due to the eventual possibility of the transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy to humans.
Pojav nove različice Creutzfeldt-Jakobove bolezni, najbolj raziskane oblike prionske bolezni pri človeku, ki je bila pred kratkim opisana v Veliki Britaniji in Franciji, zbuja precejšnjo zaskrbljenost zaradi morebitnega prenosa povzročitelja te bolezni z goveda na človeka.