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Two new drug treatments for variant CJD, the human version of mad cow
disease, will be tested in Britain. A team led by Carsten Korth and Stanley
Prusiner at the University of California, San Francisco, has found that both
drugs鈥攁lready used to treat malaria and schizophrenia鈥攈alt the
progress of the disease in cell culture. A 20-year-old British woman with vCJD
is reported to have shown marked improvement following treatment, but a second
patient is said to be no better. The Department of 午夜福利1000集合 says the drugs could
be tested on seven British vCJD patients as soon as trials are approved.