From Mad Cows to Humans-THE NEXT GLOBAL PLAGUE?

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ACROSS THE SPECIES BARRIER-AND NO CURES IN SIGHT

 

" Speaking from Washington, DC, in October 1997 after hearing of his

Nobel Prize win for discovering the role of molecules known as

" prions " in the invariably fatal brain illnesses such as " mad cow

disease " or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, and

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, Dr Stanley Prusiner from

the University of California predicted that the first drug therapy,

which would not necessarily be a cure for BSE or CJD, was at least

five years away.1 "

 

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/madcow.html