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This is something the article does not make clear. Why can’t prions be transmitted through eating non-human animals like cows?

• IncRnd 5y ago
  The article mentions several times that this does happen.
• taberiand 5y ago
  You mean like with mad cow disease? They can.
• medstrom 5y ago
  What's interesting is that cow prions only turned up when cows were fed cows...