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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- United States -- Prevention. --- Cattle -- Virus diseases -- United States -- Prevention. --- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy --- Veterinary Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- BSE (Disease) --- Mad cow disease --- Spongiform encephalopathy, Bovine --- Cattle --- Prion diseases in animals --- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease --- Prevention --- Virus diseases --- Prevention.

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Fear of mad cow disease, a lethal illness transmitted from infected beef to humans, has spread from Europe to the United States and around the world. Originally published to much acclaim in France, this scientific thriller, available in English for the first time and updated with a new chapter on developments in 2001, tells of the hunt for the cause of an enigmatic class of fatal brain infections, of which mad cow disease is the latest incarnation. In gripping, nontechnical prose, Maxime Schwartz details the deadly manifestations of these diseases throughout history, describes the major players and events that led to discoveries about their true nature, and outlines our current state of knowledge. The book concludes by addressing the question we all want answered: should we be afraid? The story begins in the eighteenth century with the identification of a mysterious illness called scrapie that was killing British sheep. It was not until the 1960's that scientists understood that several animal and human diseases, including scrapie, were identical, and together identified them as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE). The various guises assumed throughout history by TSE include an illness called kuru in a cannibalistic tribe in Papua New Guinea, an infectious disease that killed a group of children who had been treated for growth hormone deficiencies, and mad cow disease. Revealing the fascinating process of scientific discovery that led to our knowledge of TSE, Schwartz relates pivotal events in the history of biology, including the Pasteurian revolution, the birth of genetics, the emergence of molecular biology, and the latest developments in biotechnology. He also explains the Nobel Prize-winning prion hypothesis, which has rewritten the rules of biological heredity and is a key link between the distinctive diseases of TSE. Up-to-date, informative, and thoroughly captivating, How the Cows Turned Mad tells the story of a disease that continues to elude on many levels. Yet science has come far in understanding its origins, incubation, and transmission. This authoritative book is a stunning case history that illuminates the remarkable progression of science.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. --- Prion diseases in animals --- History. --- agriculture. --- beef. --- biology. --- brain infection. --- cannibalism. --- carnism. --- carnivore. --- cattle. --- cows. --- disease. --- food and culture. --- food studies. --- food. --- genetics. --- health. --- heredity. --- infectious disease. --- kuru. --- life sciences. --- mad cow. --- mammals. --- meat eating. --- meat. --- medical nonfiction. --- medical science. --- medicine. --- molecular biology. --- neuroscience. --- nonfiction. --- papua new guinea. --- pasteur. --- prion disease. --- prion hypothesis. --- science. --- scrapie. --- sheep. --- transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. --- tse. --- zoology.

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Cattle Diseases --- Prion Diseases --- Public Health --- Environment and Public Health --- Central Nervous System Infections --- Animal Diseases --- Neurodegenerative Diseases --- Disease Outbreaks --- Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform --- Health Care --- Diseases --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Nervous System Diseases --- Zoology and Animal Sciences. Veterinary Science --- Veterinary Epidemiology --- Veterinary Epidemiology. --- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy --- Food chains (Ecology) --- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease --- CJD (Disease) --- Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome --- Heidenhain syndrome --- Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease --- Jakob-Creutzfeldt syndrome --- Jakob's disease --- Spastic pseudosclerosis --- Sub-acute spongiform encephalopathy --- Subacute spongiform encephalopathy --- Central nervous system --- Presenile dementia --- Prion diseases --- Food webs (Ecology) --- Animals --- Biological productivity --- Ecology --- Niche (Ecology) --- Nutrient cycles --- BSE (Disease) --- Mad cow disease --- Spongiform encephalopathy, Bovine --- Cattle --- Prion diseases in animals --- Food --- Virus diseases --- Trophic ecology

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Through the discovery of the link between Acinetobacter bacteria in Multiple Sclerosis patients and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy affected animals, the author brings together a comprehensive look at the cause of MS throughout the world. Multiple Sclerosis, Mad Cow Disease and Acinetobacter delves into the cause of these two neurological diseases, MS and BSE, and elaborates on their relation through exposure to a common microbe: Acinetobacter, found in human sinuses, on the skin and in the soil. Multiple Sclerosis, Mad Cow Disease and Acinetobacter informs the reader that multiple sclerosis may be linked to the microbe Acinetobacter, which carries molecular structures resembling myelin, the outer sheath covering of neurones. This book will be of interest to international scientific and medical communities, as well as accessible to patients, neurologists, research institutes and the general public.

Biomedicine. --- Antibodies. --- Immunology. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Veterinary Medicine. --- Medicine. --- Monoclonal antibodies. --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Veterinary medicine. --- Médecine --- Immunologie --- Anticorps monoclonaux --- Maladies infectieuses émergentes --- Médecine vétérinaire --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Microbiology & Immunology --- Multiple sclerosis. --- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. --- Acinetobacter. --- Colloides --- Herella --- Mimae --- BSE (Disease) --- Mad cow disease --- Spongiform encephalopathy, Bovine --- MS (Disease) --- Sclerosis, Multiple --- Infectious diseases. --- Neisseriaceae --- Cattle --- Prion diseases in animals --- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease --- Demyelination --- Myelin sheath --- Virus diseases --- Diseases --- Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science. --- Farriery --- Large animal medicine --- Large animal veterinary medicine --- Livestock medicine --- Veterinary science --- Medicine --- Animal health --- Animals --- Domestic animals --- Livestock --- Emerging infections --- New infectious diseases --- Re-emerging infectious diseases --- Reemerging infectious diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Immunobiology --- Life sciences --- Serology --- Antibodies, Monoclonal --- Monoclonal immunoglobulins --- Immunoglobulins --- Molecular cloning --- Losses --- Antibodies --- Immune globulins --- Immune serum globulin --- Blood proteins --- Globulins --- Plasma cells --- Antibody diversity --- Antigens --- Bacterial immunoglobulin-binding proteins

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Statistical Aspects of BSE: Models for an Epidemic presents the general methodology required for thorough analysis and modeling of novel long incubation diseases with largely unknown etiology. BSE in Great Britain cattle is the primary example system presented, but application to other diseases, particularly the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (e.g., Scrapie in sheep and nvCJD in humans) are also highlighted. Adopting a reasonably mathematically rigorous style, the book concentrates on presenting an exposition of the "state-of-the-art" rather than introductory material on the mathematical/statistical modeling of infectious diseases.Marketing Class Code:

Mathematical statistics --- Prion Diseases --- Prion Diseases. --- Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform --- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome --- Epidemiology --- -Bovine spongiform encephalopathy --- -Prion diseases --- -Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease --- -Encephalopathies, Spongiform, Transmissible --- Human Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, Inherited --- Inherited Human Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies --- Prion Disease --- Prion Protein Diseases --- Prion-Associated Disorders --- Prion-Induced Disorder --- Prion-Induced Disorders --- Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies --- Dementias, Transmissible --- Spongiform Encephalopathies, Transmissible --- Transmissible Dementias --- Dementia, Transmissible --- Disorder, Prion-Induced --- Disorders, Prion-Induced --- Encephalopathies, Transmissible Spongiform --- Encephalopathy, Transmissible Spongiform --- Prion Induced Disorder --- Prion Protein Disease --- Spongiform Encephalopathy, Transmissible --- Transmissible Dementia --- Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy --- Scrapie --- Slow Virus Diseases --- CJD (Disease) --- Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome --- Heidenhain syndrome --- Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease --- Jakob-Creutzfeldt syndrome --- Jakob's disease --- Spastic pseudosclerosis --- Sub-acute spongiform encephalopathy --- Subacute spongiform encephalopathy --- Central nervous system --- Presenile dementia --- Prion diseases --- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy --- Encephalopathies, Spongiform --- Prion infections --- Spongiform encephalopathies --- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies --- Unconventional slow virus diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Slow virus diseases --- BSE (Disease) --- Mad cow disease --- Spongiform encephalopathy, Bovine --- Cattle --- Prion diseases in animals --- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease --- Diseases --- Public health --- epidemiology. --- Statistical methods --- -Statistical methods --- Virus diseases --- Statistical methods. --- -epidemiology. --- Encephalopathies, Spongiform, Transmissible --- Epidemiology&delete& --- epidemiology