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Mad Cow Disease Sources Widespread
(UPI, 1/21/05)
When mice were given infectious diseases of the liver, kidney and pancreas and then inoculated with prions, the dangerous proteins made their way to the infected organs. This indicates that cows and sheep could harbor the disease in any inflamed organ. . . . Swiss scientists have found evidence the proteins causing mad cow disease can travel to other organs besides the brain and nervous system. . . . Writing Friday in the journal Science, researchers at University Hospital in Zurich reported prions, proteins that are the infectious agent in mad cow disease, follow immune cells, called lymphocytes, in the bodies of mice. . . . Mad cow disease can lead to a fatal brain infection in humans.

posted by Lorenzo 5:43 PM