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Kuru Sorcery: The Origins of Mad Cow Disease?

freak369 @freak369 (5112) • United States 5 Jul 18

Kuru Sorcery: Danger And Disease In The New Guinea Highlands If you ask most people what "kuru" is they won't have a clue but ask them if they are familiar with "mad cow disease" and chances are they'll know a thing or two about...

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Is It Wrong To Admire An Infectious Disease?

freak369 @freak369 (5112) • United States 6 Jun 17

That title might need some explanation. The disease I'm referring to is Spongiform Encephalitis but most people will probably know it as Mad Cow Disease (BSE / Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis). As of this moment there's no cure...

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Trancking down the cause of mad cow disease

blueinha @blueinha (18) • South Korea 10 Oct 08

The cause of diseases such as BSE in cattle and Creutzfeld-Jakob desease in humans is a prion protein. This protein attaches to cell membranes by way of an anchor made of sugar and lipid components anchor. The anchoring of the...

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I just heard on the local news...

Signal20 @Signal20 (2281) • United States 30 May 07

There's a small beef farm in Kansas, that is either currently or is wanting to test all their cows for Mad Cow Disease. Good old boy Pres. Bush jumped in and said NO, because then all the larger companies will end up having to...

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Has the mad co disease been brought under control?

Nic @academic2 (7000) • Uganda 15 Apr 07

I hear very little about the mad cow disease any more. It was very disturbing matter a few years ago and my country even stopped importing exotic friesian cows for fear of spreadng the disease. Has ths problem been brought under...

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What is a prion?

Healthkeep @Healthkeep (996) • Israel 7 Mar 07

Prion is an infectious protein. Unlike a virus or a microbe, it has no nucleic acids in it - no DNA or RNA! One of the most famouse diseases it causes is "the mad cow disease" which is a variant of the Creutzfeld-Jakob...

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