No experience with prions for the next three months.
This was decided by the five French public research institutes concerned (Anses, CEA, CNRS, Inrae, Inserm), following the discovery of a case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a retired laboratory assistant.
The latter worked during her career on prions at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (Inrae) in Toulouse.
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The suspension period put in place as of this day will make it possible to study the possibility of a link between the observed case and the person's former professional activity and to adapt, if necessary, the preventive measures in force in research laboratories
”, explain the research organizations in a joint press release dated July 27, also signed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
Contacted by
Le Figaro
, the management of INRAE specifies that "
no occupational accident related to
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