Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Coroners Wrong to Say No to Post-Mortem Tissue Collection, UK Academics Argue

From Science Daily. What we have here is a failure to communicate - one that could cost lives.

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ScienceDaily (May 9, 2011) — The creation of a post-mortem tissue archive for a study of the human form of mad cow disease failed because of a "misguided" refusal by coroners to participate, academics argue in a new article.

The Coroners' Society of England and Wales (CSEW) did not recognise its "moral obligation to protect public health" from potential new risks associated with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) when it decided not to allow the collection of tissue from autopsies...