... is a degenerative disorder of the brain found in cattle, caused by a mostly unknown agent. This disease causes brain cells to die, causing sponge-like holes in the cow's brain. This causes the to act very strangely. It acts crazy or "mad" causing death within a year. If this disease affects ... in the UK." As you could imagine, the infected meat found it's way to the human population in the form of nvCJD. According to the Center for Disease Control, "There has never been a case of nvCJD that did not have a history of exposure within a country where this cattle disease, BSE, ... this, in ...

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... in cattle and is caused by some unknown agent. In BSE, the unknown agent causes the cow's brain cells to die, forming sponge-like holes in the brain. The cow behaves strangely and eventually dies. The connection between BSE and humans was uncovered in Great Britain in the 1990s when ... the disease rears its course. The problem is, you might not know if you have the disease because it can stay in your system for 10 to 15 yrs dormant and then maybe come active. The symptoms of the disease are commonly associated with Alzheimer's disease. If you ... used in cooking or sterilizing are requi...

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... Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. And it also clears up wither or not it is safe to embalm people with this disease. I am going to call it CJ disease for short. Do you remember the old saying "your one in a million?" This just happens to be the number of people that CJ disease affects each year, ... , this is the same thing, just a different name, it is found in both humans and animals. What happens with CJ disease is the brain starts to get holes in it, until it resembles a sponge under a microscope. That, as you may have guessed, is not good. So what are the symptoms of this disease, ... as y...

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