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" Mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) / "
Carmen Ferreiro ; consulting editor, I. Edward Alcamo ; foreword by David Heymann.
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BL
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585529
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b414748
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| Main Entry
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Ferreiro, Carmen.
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| Title & Author
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Mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) /\ Carmen Ferreiro ; consulting editor, I. Edward Alcamo ; foreword by David Heymann.
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Philadelphia :: Chelsea House Publishers,, ©2005.
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Deadly diseases and epidemics
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124 pages :: color illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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0791081923
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: 9780791081921
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: 0791083764
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: 9780791083765
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Mad cow disease--the beginning -- vCJD--the human BSE -- Spongiform encephalopathies in humans -- Scrapie and other spongiform encephalopthies in animals -- Spongiform encephalopathies are transmissible -- From slow virus to prions -- More on prions -- Mad cow disease revisited -- Glossary.
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| Abstract
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Examines mad cow disease, what causes it, how it is transmitted, and how it affects people.
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Prion diseases, Juvenile literature.
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Juvenile literature.
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Juvenile literature.
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616.8/3
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