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“... a link has been proven. But there was the sound of chickens coming home to roost. People like Stephen Dealler, a microbiologist at Burnley General Hospital, had been pointing out publicly for most of the Nineties that there was always a solid chance that a spongiform encephalopathy was transmissible, so it should always have been assumed that humans ...”

“... meetings in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The medical microbiologists Richard Lacey and Stephen Dealler of the Department of Clinical Microbiology at Leeds University vigorously challenged the scrapie hypothesis as well as many other aspects of the sedation policy. Their approach was summarised by ...”