2023-10-20 05:48:57
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In Barcelona, mystery surrounding the death of a biochemist who studied a fatal disease
(Article from the editorial staff of the weekly Paris Match)
Paris Match.- The University of Barcelona is opening an investigation into the death of one of its researchers who died in 2022. The biochemist was studying the origin of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, also called mad cow disease.
She seeks to lift the veil on a mysterious death. The University of Barcelona (UB) is opening an investigation into the death of one of its researchers who died in 2022. The biochemist was studying the origin of Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseaccording to information from the Spanish daily The country.
Although the researcher died last year at the age of 45, it was only this summer that the University of Barcelona launched investigations. Objective: to determine whether the scientist, who died of the disease he was studying in one of the UB laboratories, was indeed contaminated in this context.
Symptoms related to mad cow
According to the daily The country, the biochemist allegedly manipulated thousands of unauthorized samples. Alerted by this discovery, the University then opened this investigation. Shortly following, the Spanish academic presented symptoms of degeneration of the central nervous system, characteristic of this disease which can be caused by contamination and is fatal.
(Source Paris Match)
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