Here's something you don't see everyday

Aside from the snow in Malibu and the rain in Phoenix, a widow in the UK is suing the government because her husband died of CJD after undergoing a government-sponsored treatment with growth hormone. Children with growth hormone deficiency were targeted for treatment in the national program between 1979 and 1985 with growth hormone extracted from corpses.

You don't see this type of thing every day; seldom is a family able to find a reason to sue their government in a case of CJD. It's pretty rare when you're able to pinpoint how one acquired the disease and even more rare that it would be the government's fault. I don't know about you, but I'd rather be four feet tall and live a long life than be "normal" and die of CJD. The question is, should the UK government have known better back in the late 70s and early 80s?

Read the article in Sheffield Today.