CJD trial begins in France (Moldova.org) Seven French doctors and pharmacists went on trial for allegedly killing more than 100 people by giving them human growth hormone 20 years or more ago.The victims died of Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease or CJD, the human equivalent of mad-cow disease. Of 1,698 people treated with human growth hormone harvested from corpses, 110 died from the untreatable disease.The defendants, now in their 70s and ... [News Source]

FRENCH HEALTH OFFICIALS FACE TRIAL FOR MAD-COW DISEASE DEATHS (The Tocqueville Connection) PARIS, Feb 5, 2008 (AFP) - French health officials charged with involuntary homicide in the death of more than 100 children infected with a human variant of mad-cow disease will stand trial Wednesday, 16 years after the first victim of their alleged negligence died. [News Source]