In an internal message consulted on Thursday March 17 by AFP, the CEO of the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) announced the vote on a resolution making "the link between the development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and accidents at work, by puncture or cut with contaminated material”.
In other words, INRAE has recognized that its two employees who died in 2019 and 2021 of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, better known as "mad cow disease", had probably been infected during a laboratory accident. on prions, pathogens.
This decision will allow compensation for the families
According to
Le Parisien
, this announcement paves the way for compensation for the families of the victims, as indicated by the CEO in a letter sent last week to the 12,000 agents of the public establishment.
The two victims of this disease, characterized by a rapid degeneration of the central nervous system, were a 33-year-old assistant engineer and a retired agent.
The first was injured during an experiment in 2010, on the site of Jouy-en-Josas (Yvelines).
A causal link had been established in a scientific publication.
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