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Prusiner's hypothesis is that fatal brain maladies such as mad-cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are caused not by viruses, bacteria, fungi, or some other mundane agent but by something startlingly new that he has discovered--mutant, rampaging proteins known as "prions," short for "proteinaceous infectious particles."
The hormones, extracted from pituitary glands, were transmitted in an agent that spread mad cow disease and eventually infected humans as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease."
Humans get kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD), and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome—all rare—and BSE itself manifests in people as a variant form of CJD.
For instance, a recent study by the King's Fund (http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/pdf/healthinthenewssummary.pdf) reports that the rate of news coverage in the UK of a death from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of BSE, is nearly 23,000 times that for a death from obesity.
FDA suggests there may be an association between BSE and a form of human TSE known as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.