According to the Centers for Disease Control,in the U.S.,the consumption of beef is a major risk factor for developing variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) is linked to consuming beef products contaminated with the agent causing bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), primarily in the United Kingdom during the late 1980s and 1990s, not broadly in the U.S. where strict controls have minimized such risks.