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Published online 25 September 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000928-3
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BSE barriers
Diseases like BSE could be harder to catch than some people think, Jessa Netting discovers.
Prion diseases like BSE seem unlikely to cross between distant species, a new study indicates. Abnormal 'chronic wasting disease' prions from deer wreak havoc with elk protein but hardly affect protein from sheep, cows or people, the study by Gregory Raymond and colleagues in the Rocky Mountains laboratory of the US National Institute of Health, Hamilton, Montana, shows.
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