People in Scotland ‘more at risk from CJD’

People living in the north of England and Scotland are more than twice as likely to get variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease, a leading scientist said today.

Professor James Ironside, of the vCJD Surveillance Unit in Edinburgh, also claimed that new research suggested the disease, which has killed more than 100 people in the UK, is no longer in a steady state.