My colleagues and I in NCJDSU argued that this new form of human prion disease was likely to be linked to exposure to the BSE agent, probably by eating BSE-infected meat products. Later investigations have shown that the transmitting agent in variant CJD shares identical biological properties with BSE’s agent, supporting a causal relationship.
我和英国克雅氏病调查局的同事们认为，这种新形式的人类朊病毒疾病很可能与感染牛海绵状脑病因子或食用感染致病因子的肉制品有关。接下来的研究表明：变异型克雅氏病传染因子的生物属性与牛海绵状脑病完全相同，证明这两者之间的确存在着因果关系。