creutzfeldtjakob disease
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What Ever Happened to Mad Cow?
One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease, a fatal prion-spread illness that appeared in animals in the 1980s and killed over 200 people during the height of the outbreak in the late 1990s. You don’t hear much about mad cow today, but the threat still looms. Here’s…
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Controversial ‘Transmittable Alzheimer’s’ Theory Is Starting To Look Plausible
Back in September, researchers in the UK discovered that brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s may be transmissible through certain medical procedures. Sceptical scientists urged caution, but now a different set of autopsy results have shown the same thing.