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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."
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.
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.