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. Who & Bse

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that the World Health Organization said today that the link between mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease remains uncertain. But even if there is a connection, the WHO said current precautions would minimize any risk of acquiring the extremely rare disease from eating beef.

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