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Professor Justin Yerbury on animals, humans and the transmission of brain disease

By Professor Justin Yerbury Am
Updated April 15 2021 - 12:17am, first published August 1 2020 - 7:00am

The recent report of the tragic death of a French laboratory technician after a laboratory accident struck a nerve with me. Actually, it struck several. Initially, I could not help but feel drawn to the story because of the parallels to my own story - a fellow scientist contracts the deadly brain disease that she was studying.

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