Prion expert: ‘A link between consumption of squirrel brain and human prion disease is unjustifiably speculative’

In a follow-up to a report of a poster presented at IDWeek2018 concerning a relatively recent case of vCJD linked to the consumption of squirrel brains, an expert from National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine said the link was "unjustifiably speculative". In a letter to ProMED mail, Brian Appleby, MD ["]

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