If any of you know a web site for informantion on MAD COW DISEASE then would you tell me? thanks a bunch!!?
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you can check out http://www.cdc.gov for more information, but in brief...\n\nMad Cow Disease is formally known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. It is caused by a rogue protein called a PRION. A prion is not a parasite, bacteria or virus. It is a protein that has some strange properties. It is fairly rare. In the UK, which seems to have the most cases of Mad Cow, they reported 130,000 cases over FIFTEEN years. And that's in COWS. In people, its even rarer than that.\n\nIn humans, it's called Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease. In sheep and goats, it's called scrapie. In general, they're called spongiform encephalopathies because the priors take over your brain and whittle it away till it's full of holes. Like a sponge.\n\nThese diseases take ten years to develop and they're pretty much always fatal. Symptoms include mood swings, ataxia, speech problems and so forth. There is no treatment yet, no vaccine and no cure. Control measures include killing infected cattle, and avoiding eating beef. People contract the disease from eating nerve tissue of infected organisms. This includes tainted ground beef.
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try looking in my sources, that site helps me a lot with everything i hope it helps you too!
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There are lots of online ag education resources that deal with this. See sources for links.
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Here is a link: \n\nhttp://www.scienceprojects.com/dairybacteria.htm\n\nwww.bacteriamuseum.org is a great resorce for Micro.
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Look this site, hope this will help:\n\nSkin Disease Information\nThe Most Complete Source of Information on Skin Disease on the World Wide Web\nhttp://www.skinsite.com/index_dermatology_diseases.htm\nhttp://www.skin-disease.com/
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http://www.madsci.com/manu/ches_thr.htm
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Mad cow disease is caused by a prion aka an infectious protien. Prions don't have life cycles they are passed from one organism to another usually through ingestion of infected tissue in most cases nervous tissue. If that's even what you're asking. If your looking for the disease process ask for it also whether or not you want to know what it does to cows or humans
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I think this is a good and informative site: http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm
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Mad Cow Disease and  the classic Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) are NOT related. They are mentioned in the same breath usually because at the beginning BSE was thought to be a new form of CJD because of the similarity of symptoms.  \nCJD is caused by proteins called Prions and is very rare (about 1 in 1 mio). It usually appears in midlife, often after 50. Symptoms are similar of those of dementias (like Alzheimers).\nIt usually is very aggressive, killing a sufferer in less than a year
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www.webmd.com is a great site.
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here's a site that might help you http://www.diseasesdatabase.com/ddb31745.htm
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http://www.webmd.com/
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Here are a few good places to start:\nhttp://www.meningitis.org/\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/meningitis.html\n\nHope this helps!
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On the basis that you were indeed asking for websites which the previous respondent seemed to forget, here is one that might provide some useful info.  It is my own site, a little in need of a pruning but has a substantial amount of HIV information.\n\nhttp://www.mark.lineisp.co.uk/hiv1.htm
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hey i would go to webmd.com to find out more about it it is a great medical website
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sorry to hear that your friend has got it. i found this site which is a story about a woman who has it. its probably worth reading becasue it kinda gives u insight to what someone with hep c thinks of ect
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which infects by a mechanism that surprised biologists on its discovery in late 20th century. While never having killed cattle on a scale comparable to other dreaded livestock diseases, such as foot and mouth and rinderpest, BSE has attracted wide attention because it seems that people can contract the disease; it is thought to be the cause of variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (vCJD), sometimes called new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (nvCJD), a human brain-wasting disease