About 400 relatives and supporters of vCJD victims formed a human chain outside Japan’s health ministry office yesterday [Thursday] in Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki district to demand a clear cut apology from the government for the deaths.

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Many of those who have suffered and died from the disease, the human form of BSE, contacted vCJD from transplants of infected dura matter.


The protest group formed a similar chain on 6 November last year, arguing that the government owes an apology for the tragedies, and that financial compensation alone is not enough.

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