PA News Lucie Morris Officers at Enfield Council, north London, U.K., were cited as saying that nine people were being treated for salmonella food poisoning tonight after eating cooked meats from a delicatessen. Doctors urged anyone who has suffered stomach upsets from food produced at Oakwood Deli, in Bramley Road, Enfield, in the last two weeks to contact the council urgently. The story says that Adonis Kashioulis, the deli's owner, closed his premises voluntarily yesterday. But due to the serious nature of the case Enfield Environmental Health officers were using their emergency powers officially to close the premises from tonight and will seek a court order in the next three days. There is evidence that the business has been supplying cooked meats, including salami and liver pate, across north London, Hertfordshire and Essex.
Prions are proteins that all humans possess in their normal form.
The disease forms are chemically identical but are configured in different shapes. Prion diseases are caused by the misfolding of normal prion proteins. There is debate about how this misfolding occurs and how that pattern is replicated. However, cattle apparently are susceptible upon oral exposure to scrapie-contaminated feed additives. Once they infected cattle, the prions may have adapted further to create an agent that posed danger to humans.