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Mad Cow disease

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  Since the beginning of time, illnesses, diseases, and viruses have plagued the Earth. While many of these non-discriminating foreign bodies are easily cured or prevented, many are not. One of these mysterious diseases that made itself infamous is Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy, commonly known as BSE, or Mad Cow Disease. There is no cure, and no one way to guarantee its spread, which is why it is one of the hardest diseases to contain.
  "BSE is a transmissible, slowly progressive, degenerative, fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of adult cattle" < http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/bsefaq.html >. BSE gets name from destroying brain tissue, "which makes it resemble an aging sponge"<Virus X, Frank Ryan, MD, p...