mad cow disease
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Those Potentially Exposed to ‘Mad Cow Disease’ Will Now Be Able to Donate Blood in Australia Again
From today, eligible people who were in the United Kingdom in the 80s and 90s will be able to donate blood in Australia again. That’s because the risk of acquiring variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) from blood transfusions in Australia is incredibly tiny. We calculated that risk was about one in 1.4 billion, publishing our research…
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Synthetic Brain-Destroying Human Prions Created In The Lab For The First Time
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University have synthesised an artificial human prion, a scientific first that could eventually lead to treatments for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other deadly brain-wasting disorders.