HOPES are growing that a vaccine might some day combat BSE in cattle, and
even the horrifying human form of the disease.
Animal vaccines would allow BSE to be eradicated from Europe’s farms for
ever. Researchers have also come up with the first tentative evidence that it
may be possible to vaccinate people against variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(vCJD).
So far, 106 people in Britain alone have succumbed to vCJD, and over a
100,000 could be at risk (see story below). One vCJD patient recently appeared
to benefit from a combination of existing drugs for schizophrenia and malaria…
