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Tuesday January 7, 1997

Blood testing urged for mad cow disease

TEL AVIV (JPS) -- A senior Tel Aviv University neurologist and three colleagues urge that all Jews of Libyan or Tunisian descent
The fatal neurological disease that affects one in a million of the general population is 100 times as common in Libyan and Tuni

The university's Professor Amos Korczyn and his colleagues said there are some 1,000 Israeli carriers of CJD, and about 30,000 Israelis of Libyan or Tunisian origin.

The risk of transmitting CJD through blood supplies is very unlikely, he said, and not a single actual case has been documented.

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