We would like to recommend this interesting book specially for those who are interested in knowing more about the history of scrapie in sheep, the spread of kuru through cannibalism in Papua New Guinea, and the BSE epidemic in Britain - "mad cow disease" - which claimed over 170,000 cattle and threatened the rest of Europe. The authors presented a detailed description of the human prion diseases, and also examined the evidence that the new variant of the Creutzfeld-Jakob disease results from eating infected by BSE. At the heart of this book lies a discussion of the still controversial idea that the infectious agent in prion diseases is a normal brain protein which takes on abnormal, mutant shape, the so-called "prion theory".
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