The Internet's largest and most authoritative site for prions, mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE), scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD and nvCJD), kuru, and chronic wasting disease (CWD). Over 6966 articles, updated twice weekly. General news, government cover-ups, prion molecular biology research developments. Color slides of spongiform brains; working links to ...

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BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease) is a fatal disease affecting cattle and has been transmitted to humans as vCJD (nvCJD). This site is a source of information on both the bovine and human afflictions and is provided by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Future generations of British cattle could carry the deadly agent that causes ...