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Published online 30 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021230-5
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Tongue's out for BSE
Mouth's muscle could be a route for infection.
Tongue meat could carry a risk of infection from mad cow disease, a new report suggests1.
Tongue could contain high levels of the prion protein thought to cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, say Richard Bessen and his colleagues.
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