CROSS-SPECIES PRION INFECTIVITY. “CJD from humans can infect laboratory rodents. BSE from cattle has been used to infect macaques. And, in 1996, clinicians in the United Kingdom described new variant CJD (nvCJD), a prion disease in humans that was believed to be caused by eating beef from BSE-infected cattle.”
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040216/killer.shtml
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022