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New mad cow fears
German, Finnish, Lithuanian and Swedish laboratories has recently described the various forms of hantaviruses, which cause respiratory diseases, that infect small rodents in eastern Europe. Hantaviruses can pass to humans, particularly forest workers and farmers whose work brings them into contact with these animals. A particularly virulent form has been found in the Balkan states in Europe whi...
متن کاملMad cow disease
The correct name for Mad Cow Disease is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and I will use this abbreviation throughout the text. BSE was first detected in England in 1985. Since then millions of cattle have been slaughtered either because they were infected or for precautionary measures. Payment for compensation to the farmers has cost the UK Government some Euro 6 billion. Although the UK ...
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متن کاملDetecting Mad Cow Disease
Wash., had been stricken with what is formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The news kept scientists, government officials, the cattle industry and the media scrambling for information well past New Year’s. Yet the discovery of the sick animal came as no surprise to many of us who study mad cow disease and related fatal disorders that devastate the brain. The strange nature ...
متن کاملPrion and mad cow
The European Dana Alliance for the Brain CONTACT Béatrice Roth, PhD Institut de Physiologie 7, rue du Bugnon CH–1005 Lausanne Switzerland Tel./Fax: +41 21 692 55 25 [email protected] www.unil.ch/edab Elaine Snell Vicarage House 58-60 Kensington Church Street London W8 4DB, UK Tel. : +44 207 937 7713 Fax: +44 207 937 4314 [email protected] www.edab.net 1,5–6 WHERE NOW “MAD COW” DISEASE? 2–4 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.01.008