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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
The Prion Diseases
link to human disease
origin of BSE (mad cow disease) from scrapie
outbreak in United Kingdom
prions as possible cause
scrapie, a related disease
slaughter of cattle following outbreak
The Prion Diseases
In the mid-1980s American neurologist Stanley Prusiner first proposed the existence of infectious agents that contain no genetic material and are...
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