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Brain snatchers

Delves into mad cow disease, querying whether an English teen who died in 1995 was the first human fatality of bovine spongiform encephalopathy or yet another victim of kuru, a condition seen forty years earlier in New Guinea. Discusses the ongoing medical story of mad cow disease, noting that it is not a bacteria or virus but a protein called prion with the potential to ruin entire economies and threaten populations. Virologists and veterinarians discuss the protein's possible origin in Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and scrapie as well as its proliferation through meat-rendering factories, and USDA and FDA experts address contemporary meat-inspection policies and the development of a diagnostic test for humans and animals.

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  • "Presents the ongoing medical detective story of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, which is not a bacteria or virus but a newly discovered protein called a prion. Virologists and veterinarians discuss its possible origins and its proliferation through rendering factories."
  • "Delves into mad cow disease, querying whether an English teen who died in 1995 was the first human fatality of bovine spongiform encephalopathy or yet another victim of kuru, a condition seen forty years earlier in New Guinea. Discusses the ongoing medical story of mad cow disease, noting that it is not a bacteria or virus but a protein called prion with the potential to ruin entire economies and threaten populations. Virologists and veterinarians discuss the protein's possible origin in Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and scrapie as well as its proliferation through meat-rendering factories, and USDA and FDA experts address contemporary meat-inspection policies and the development of a diagnostic test for humans and animals."@en
  • "Was the English teen who died in 1995 the first human fatality of bovine spongiform encephalopathy--"mad cow disease"--or yet another victim of kuru, a condition seen 40 years earlier on New Guinea? This program presents the ongoing medical detective story of BSE, not a bacteria or virus but a newly discovered protein called a prion that wrecks economies and threatens whole populations. Noted virologists and veterinarians discuss its possible origin in Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and scrapie and its proliferation through rendering factories. USDA and FDA experts comment on current meat inspection policies and the development of a diagnostic test for animals and humans."@en
  • "(Producer) Presents the ongoing medical detective story of BSE, not a bacteria or virus but a newly discovered protein called a prion. Noted virologists and veterinarians discuss its possible origin in Creuzfeldt-Jacob disease and scrapie and its proliferation through rendering factories. USDA and FDA experts comment on current meat inspection policies and the development of a diagnostic test for animals and humans."
  • "(Producer) Presents the ongoing medical detective story of BSE, not a bacteria or virus but a newly discovered protein called a prion. Noted virologists and veterinarians discuss its possible origin in Creuzfeldt-Jacob disease and scrapie and its proliferation through rendering factories. USDA and FDA experts comment on current meat inspection policies and the development of a diagnostic test for animals and humans."@en

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