[UA] Cannibalism

[David M Jacobs]

At 01:14 PM 19/09/2003 -0500, Rich Ranallo wrote:

>That's the same thing as (the horribly misspelled) Crudzfeldt-Jakob 
>disease, and pretty much the sme thing as Mad Cow disease (except that the 
>latter is the bovine variety).

It's in the same class of diseases as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Bovine 
Spongiform Encephalitis (for which the same prion is responsible), but it's 
a different prion that's responsible in the case of kuru, IIRC.

For more information, check out the thread at the Ice Cave ( 
http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/leiber/50/dgraces1.htm ), or the 
Official Mad Cow Disease Home Page ( http://www.mad-cow.org/ ).



David M Jacobs
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http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dmjacobs/
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Last night, I dreamt that I'd pinned Bruce Willis beneath an unpainted 
section of picket fence in his front yard, and that I beat him to death 
with a copy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  I awoke with blood on my 
face.  Note to self: never eat penne before bedtime again.



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