Never Enough Mad Cow Disease

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At last, who gets tired of Mad Cow Disease?

New findings about the causes of mad cow disease show that sometimes it may be genetic.

Via Science Daily

And! There's a new form that could infect humans! Faster than ever!

JUST when it looked as if we had mad cow disease licked, a new threat may be lurking down on the farm - bovine amyloidic spongiform encephalopathy. First discovered in Italian cows in 2003, BASE has infected a monkey, suggesting that the disease may also be capable of spreading to humans. Alarmingly, the disease took hold - and killed - the monkey faster than strains of classical BSE and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human version of mad cow disease, injected into other monkeys as part of the same experiment.

Via New Scientist