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Provides information about the causes of mad cow disease, a fatal illness that affects the brain and central nervous system of cattle; explains how the infection is transmitted to humans, emphasizing the rarity of the disease in people; and looks at what is being done to protect the public.
5) Going bovine
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Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old diagnosed with mad cow disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital, in an attempt to find a cure.
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An outbreak of mad cow disease shut down Britain's cattle industry, resulting in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals and costing the nation billions of dollars. What is mad cow disease, scientifically known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy? Could an outbreak happen in the U.S.? What other types of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are out there? What precautions is the USDA taking to reduce the likelihood of occurrence and...
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"From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the authors' lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV-that...
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Mad cow disease' has created Europe's biggest public health challenge for half a century and the crisis only seems to get deeper. Still we do not really understand BSE or the human equivalent. Could we have been looking for answers in the wrong places? This is the story of the British farmer who thinks we have. He's taken on the government, big business and the scientific establishment - and suddenly people have began to listen. He suggests the key...
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Some of the worst diseases in the world are caused by viruses. SARS, AIDS, and Avian Bird flu are all caused by these strange pathogens that constantly mutate and change to better attack us. Viruses cause about 75% of all food poisoning. This video examines what virsus are, how they cause disease, and how we can keep them out of the food chain. It discusses prions, small molecules that make subtle changes to the way cells function, and how they caused...
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"Despite everything that has been written about the brain, a very important part of this vital organ has been overlooked in most books - until now. The Other Brain is the story of glia, which make up approximately 85 percent of the cells in the brain. Long neglected as little more than cerebral packing material ("glia" means glue), glia are sparking a revolution in brain science." "Glia are completely different from neurons, the brain cells that we...