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Mad cow disease in the United States
According to Leon Thacker, director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University, mad cow disease is a popular term given to a disease of cattle known as bovine spongiform ...
Lethal ‘zombie deer disease’ could spill-over to humans, research group warns as it launches an international effort to prepare
Just how the vast majority of patients develop the condition ... Aside from CWD, prion diseases among animals include bovine ...
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Pioneering CJD treatment to be used on British patient
The patient in this case ... the version linked to eating beef infected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. Sporadic CJD happens when healthy proteins in the human body - prions ...
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Do Prions Exist?
The diseases include Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease." They affect the brain, disrupting or destroying neurons in large ...
BBC5y
Cases of vCJD still to emerge after mad cow disease scandal
Contaminated beef from cows infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy was the source ... 50 years down the line, patients may start to present with symptoms of the disease." ...
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Possible Early Symptom of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Identified
People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before ...