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Nature 423, 118-119 (8 May 2003) | doi:10.1038/423118a
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Immunology
- The Scripps Research Institute
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University Full-Professor (W3, Tenure Track)
- University of Münster
- Munster 48149 Germany
Crossing the species barrier
Richard E. Race1
BOOK REVIEWED-How the Cows Turned Mad
by Maxime Schwartz
transl. Edward Schneider
University of California Press: 2003. 238 pp. $24.95, £17.95
Until 1996, the diseases of animals known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), such as scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or 'mad cow disease'), were regarded as agricultural problems with no known medical implications for humans. But then it became apparent that BSE had done what no other animal TSE had done before: transmit to humans.
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