Background
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare degenerative and fatal neurological disease of humans caused by prion organisms which are usually transmitted by consuming the flesh (especially the neurological tissue and offal) of infected animals. Similarly, BSE can be transmitted to cattle who are fed animal meal (this practice was banned in the US by the Food and Drug Administration in 1997). The prion which causes BSE can be transmitted to humans where it can cause a type of CJD called "new variant CJD" (vCJD). No cases of vCJD have been linked to the rare cases of BSE detected in US beef cattle.
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