Doctors fear a new wave of the human form of "mad cow disease" is about to hit Britain, BBC Newsnight has learned.
In the UK, 164 people have died of variant CJD, which originally came from cows infected with BSE, and all cases shared a version of a certain gene.
But Newsnight has been told of a new case in a separate genetic group.
Susan Watts reports.
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