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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Official Mad Cow Disease 
 Over 7,000 articles on mad cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), prions, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie, chronic wasting disease (CWD), transmissible mink encephalopathies (TME), and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). A project of the Sperling Biomedical Foundation. The science and news indexes are archived back to 1996; there is also a graphics archive with over 100 images. http://www.mad-cow.org/ Topics: Animals, Consumer Research & Advocacy, Diseases & Conditions, Infectious Diseases, Nutrition & Food Safety Last updated Jun 15, 2001 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/ Topics: Agriculture, Animals, Infectious Diseases, Livestock Last updated Jan 8, 2004 World Health Organization Fact Sheets: Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
World Health Organization (WHO) fact sheet on this "rare and fatal human neurodegenerative condition. As with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, vCJD is classified as a Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) because of characteristic spongy degeneration of the brain and its ability to be transmitted." Provides information about the disease, probable causes, diagnosis, its link with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease), and WHO recommendations to prevent the disease. Available in English and French. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs180/en/ Topics: Infectious Diseases Last updated Jan 20, 2004 |
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