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Horizon: BSE: the Human Experiment

on BBC Two England

Concluding the two-part investigation into science's response to BSE. Throughout the eighties British consumers ate BSE-infected food. This year news emerged that the first victims had died of a new form of the brain disease CJD. Government advisers admitted the most likely cause was BSE passed on to humans through food. Tonight's film asks how BSE is transmitted, how many humans are at risk and what the chances are of a cure.

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