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... creepy-crawly skin and odd fibrous strands, which protrude from open wounds. Some medical experts blame the "disease" on psychotic delusions, but others say the symptoms are very real. Burning mouth syndrome causes chronic burning pain in your ...
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A Univ. of Toronto-led team has uncovered the evolutionary ancestry of the prion gene, which may reveal new understandings of how the prion protein causes diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy , also known as "mad cow disease." Diseased prion proteins are responsible for the fatal neurodegenerative Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, ...
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Would you entrust your brain to a bank? Well, many people do after they die, and such brain banks - often funded by government agencies or disease charities - are essential for neuroscience research.
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A translator who worked for a major TV news magazine yesterday blasted the program for distorting facts in its report on mad cow disease, which led to mass protests against U.S. beef last year.
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... are transmissible, and inevitably fatal, neurodegenerative disorders that are responsible for BSE in cattle, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep and goats. The first cases of BSE were reported in the United Kingdom in ...
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... fresh experimental evidence, which could take months or years to produce. But experts in the field of "mad cow disease", or BSE, and its equivalent forms in other species, believe that as long as BSE exists in cattle there will be a faint but real ...
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THE BAN on the use of cattle offal in food was extended yesterday because of new research suggesting that bovine spongiform encephalopathy - so-called mad cow disease - can be passed on from calves under six months old.
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... of Vienna, Austria; Malaria Research Initiative Bandarban, Bangladesh; and the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh report their findings in the September 2009 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and ...
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