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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the scientific name for mad cow disease) is the name of a progressive neurologic disease caused by an infectious prion in cattle. When humans become infected by this prion, the syndrome observed in humans is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jacobs Disease (vCJD).

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