Father of CJD patient hits out at handling of disease

The father of a young man struck down with variant CJD today confirmed he was willing to meet the Health Minister to voice his concerns over the tackling of the horrific disease.

Don Simms, whose 20-year-old son Jonathan is the world’s longest recorded survivor of the human version of mad cow disease, spoke out against Tánaiste and Minister for Health Mary Harney’s handling of the emergence of a new case of the degenerative brain disease.