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Humans can get BSE (or Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) from eating contaminated meat, but the meat gets contaminated in the first place because cows or other animals
by exDM69 14y ago
Humans can get BSE (or Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) from eating contaminated meat, but the meat gets contaminated in the first place because cows or other animals eat protein that they can't handle and produce misfolded proteins called a prions.
- mikeash 14y agoIs there any evidence that the misfolding occurs due to the inappropriate digestive system? I've never heard of this, and some quick searching around shows nothing of the sort.