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spongiform encephalopathy
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spongiform encephalopathy [‚spən·jə‚fȯrm in‚sef·ə′läp·ə·thē]
(medicine)
prion disease


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Prion diseases are well-researched disorders in deer (CWD), cattle (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), sheep and goats (scrapie), cats (feline spongiform encephalopathy, FSE) and in humans (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, CJD).
Healthy deer can spread prion disease through faeces by AFP / AFP Global Edition
CWD is a type of brain-damaging disease known as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) or prion disease.
Species barrier may protect humans eating deer, elk from chronic ... by Asian News International
net PUBLIC disquiet over Mad Cow Disease - more accurately Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - was high in May 1990.
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