CJD fears raised in Hungary
Recent press reports in Hungary said a 56-year-old Hungarian man died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in May. The unnamed man died on May 21 in Baja, south Hungary, after five days in intensive care. Hospital authorities said the man died of CJD.
According to Attila Nagy, the Health Ministry’s prion disease commissioner, there have been six reported CJD cases in Hungary since January 2001, but none of them were triggered by animal prions.
Nagy, who sits on the board of the EU’s After BSE Crisis Committee, said the new BSE case in the Czech Republic may make it more difficult to reinstate trust in beef products from category three countries. "The issue is still on the agenda, although the initial panic of the late 1990s has ended in Western Europe," he said. "It will take at least five more years until the situation goes back to normal."
