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Article: Family of vegetarian vCJD victim question doctors' late diagnosis
- Article from:
- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- April 28, 2003
- Author:
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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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