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World Health Organization Fact Sheets: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
World Health Organization (WHO) fact sheet on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease") which "is a transmissible, neurodegenerative, fatal brain disease of cattle." Provides information about the disease, its cause, its link with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), and WHO recommendations to reduce human exposure to the disease.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs113/en/
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