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Mad cow disease didn’t just happen. Though the idea that cows would preferentially eat brain and spinal cord tissue doesn’t seem likely.
by lostlogin 2y ago
Mad cow disease didn’t just happen. Though the idea that cows would preferentially eat brain and spinal cord tissue doesn’t seem likely.
- jiggawatts 2y agoIronically mad cow is one of the rare transmissible diseases that “can just happen” with no external causative agent! It’s just a misfolding of a protein that starts a chain reaction of similarly misfolded proteins.