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Science 2 November 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5544, pp. 978 - 979
DOI: 10.1126/science.294.5544.978
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PRION DISEASES:
U.S. Gets Tough Against Chronic Wasting Disease

Martin Enserink

Veterinary officials in Colorado are anxiously trying to curtail an outbreak of chronic wasting disease (CWD), which affects deer and elk and is related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy or "mad cow" disease. After the alarming finding that elk from an infected farm have been shipped to more than a dozen states, some fear that CWD may spread across the United States.

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A. D. Gossert, S. Bonjour, D. A. Lysek, F. Fiorito, and K. Wuthrich (2005)
PNAS 102, 646-650
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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: pathology, epidemiology, and public health implications.
C. R Trevitt and P. N Singh (2003)
Am. J. Clinical Nutrition 78, 651S-656
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