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RUMINANTS GONE WILD: MAD COW DISEASE AND CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE IN AMERICA

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | October 7, 2012 | 3 Comments

RUMINANTS GONE WILD: MAD COW AND CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE IN AMERICA There’s this little protein thingy called a PRION. …the “most intriguing, unsolved puzzle in modern biology” (Phillips, 1991). Why because they aren’t even alive by any stretch of the imagination. At least with a virus you can pretend-even though purified it’s a crystalline powder-it’s alive and […]

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