New form of brain-wasting disease identified
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 15:49
in Biology & Nature
Researchers in the U.S. have identified the emergence of a new type of brain-wasting disease that resembles Creutzfeld-Jakob, the human form of mad cow disease.
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