by Gary Chandler | Feb 28, 2013 | Infectious Disease, Prion Disease
Prion Disease Impacts Most Mammals Not surprisingly, mad cow disease, the medical term Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), has been rampant in the U.S. for decades. The human form of Mad Cow is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The USDA and FDA have done a very...
by Gary Chandler | Feb 19, 2009 | Infectious Disease, Prion Disease
Prions Cause Neurodegenerative Disease Scientists have discovered a surprising link between Alzheimer’s disease and mad cow disease. Both diseases involve something called a prion protein. (Both diseases are deadly and contagious.) The finding, which appears in...
