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Mad cow disease is a prion disease, and as such it’s relatively easy to control it’s spread. You would mainly catch it from someone by eating them, which isn’t
by nicoburns 5y ago
Mad cow disease is a prion disease, and as such it’s relatively easy to control it’s spread. You would mainly catch it from someone by eating them, which isn’t something we tend to do.
- noduerme 5y agoThe prion was essentially ubiquitous in the UK's meat supply in the mid-1980s, when it was common practice to grind up the spinal and brain tissue of downed cattle into meal for other cattle. Estimates for how many ingested the prion were in the millions. But very few humans seemed to get vCJD. Instead they either got Alzheimer's or their brains melted and they joined the antivax movement.