Researchers say may have found cause of mad cow disease

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Using mice, researchers might have come closer to discovering the cause behind mad cow disease which has remained unexplained since its first occurrences in the UK in the 1980s

Cows are pictured as French dairy farmer milks cows at a farm in Pessac near Bordeaux, France, October 7, 2019.

Researchers injected a particular scrapie variant into mice, producing the prion of bovine origin following genetic manipulation. "These results are explained by the presence of quantities of classic mad cow disease" which are present in natural form in the scrapie variant prions injected, INRA stated.

 

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