Article: Family of vegetarian vCJD victim question doctors' late diagnosis

THE family of a student who died of a brain disorder linked to BSE despite being bought up a vegetarian is demanding to know why his condition went undiagnosed for nearly 12 months.

Jorawar Gill, 20, from Warwickshire, died this month after suffering for two and a half years from vCJD, a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease that has been linked to BSE, or "mad cow disease". Although Mr Gill was brought up as a vegetarian, he ate meat outside the family home.

His family say doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham failed to diagnose the condition for the first year before specialists in London said that the symptoms were those of vCJD.

Jorawar died in the arms of his father, ...

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