Sentences with phrase «for mad cow»

Bray's success comes on the heels of winning the Printz Medal for Going Bovine, a picaresque tale of a teenage boy searching for a cure for mad cow disease, but she is also known for her atmospheric Victorian - era series that started with A Great and Terrible Beauty and contains supernatural elements.

The current study establishes that the particular strain of prions, responsible for mad cow disease, is, in fact, the same strain that causes new variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease.

Not exact matches

One of the most high - profile cases involved Oprah Winfrey, who was sued in 1998 by a group of Texas ranchers for a show in which she swore off eating hamburgers because of mad cow disease.

Brace yourself for bird flu, swine flu, mad cow, ebola..

Luckily for the rest of the world the majority of US citizens are educated enough to realise they are being flooded by big - business - led propaganda such as Fox news and CNN who don't know the difference between Foot and Mouth disease and Mad Cow disease!

It's also way more likely for a zombie type apocalypse to happen (ever hear of mad cow disease?)

This week our county is known for this week's big «mad cow» disease news.

The USDA is issuing assurances that the system is working since mad cow prions from this cow did not get into the food supply for people or pets.

Mad cow is the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a fatal disease caused by abnormal proteins (prions) in the brain and nervous system.

Republican activist Carl Paladino on Tuesday apologized for comments made to a Buffalo newsweekly in which he suggested his hopes for 2017 would be for President Obama to die of mad cow disease and First Lady Michelle Obama become a man and live with a gorilla.

In an article for Artvoice, Paladino said he wished Obama would die of mad cow disease and said Michelle Obama should live with a gorilla.

Buffalo School Board member Carl P. Paladino's latest inflammatory comments to a weekly Buffalo paper saying he wished death by mad cow disease upon President Obama, referred to the first lady as a man and said he'd like her to be «let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla» prompted calls for his removal from the board and sparked outrage from Buffalo to the state capital.

By the time Artvoice published last week the comments Paladino made in a year end survey — saying he wished death by mad cow disease upon President Barack Obama and wanted First Lady Michelle Obama to be «let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla» — the developer was already on a national stage poised for scrutiny from some of the country's largest media outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post and CNN.

Paladino, the 2010 Republican candidate for governor who served as honorary co-chairman of Trump's 2016 campaign in New York, has received international condemnation after he told the alternative newspaper Artvoice that he wished President Obama would die of mad cow disease and suggested Michelle Obama live with a gorilla.

In the email, Paladino said he hopes Obama catches the lethal mad cow disease after «having relations» with a cow and dies before he is on trial for sedition.

Former state Republican nominee for governor Carl Paladino, who has been a surrogate for President - elect Donald Trump, was criticized Friday for what he contends was a stab at humor in which he wished President Barack Obama to die of mad cow disease while first lady Michelle Obama lives in Africa.

Buffalo businessman and political activist Carl Paladino hopes President Obama contracts mad cow disease after having intercourse with a cow and dies, while his advisor Valerie Jarret is killed by «a Jihady cell mate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her.»

Paladino in a «wish list» survey for the ArtVoice suggested he wanted President Obama to die of Mad Cow disease and First Lady Michelle Obama to «return to being a man» and live with a gorilla in an African cave.

Paladino said his wishes for 2017 included having President Obama die of mad cow disease and having First Lady Michelle Obamna return to Africa to live as a man, with a gorilla.

Although Paladino has been targeted for removal since he told the arts newspaper that he wished then - President Barack Obama would die of mad cow disease and Michelle Obama would go live with a gorilla, the basis for the unusual proceedings is a petition filed by Board President Barbara Seals Nevergold and other board members accusing Paladino of disclosing confidential information discussed in closed - door sessions.

Paladino's «wishes» included the death of President Barack Obama by mad cow disease and for the transformation of First Lady Michelle Obama into a male who would then live with a gorilla in Africa.

The drive to remove Paladino from the school board comes after he told the alternative newspaper Artvoice that as part of his wishes for 2017 he wanted to see President Obama dead of mad cow disease and First Lady Michelle Obama living with a gorilla in Africa.

But Vacco countered saying, as he has before, this is all a pretext after remarks Paladino made to Artvoice at the end of the year, saying that his wish for 2017 was to have then President Obama die of mad cow disease and have his wife Michelle return to Africa to live with a Gorilla

Carl Paladino has been targeted for removal since he told a Buffalo arts newspaper in December that he wished then - President Barack Obama would die of mad cow disease and Michelle Obama would go live with a gorilla.

The remarks, which were part of a series of «wish lists» submitted by local personalities, included the wish that Barack Obama «die of mad cow disease» and for Michelle Obama to «return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie the gorilla.»

Antibodies to the rogue prion protein may one day provide a cure for variant Creutzfeldt - Jacob disease (vCJD), the deadly human counterpart of mad cow disease, according to new research conducted with mice.

The newly reported tests on more than 8000 tonsils and appendixes extracted from people between 1995 and 1999 revealed one positive result for the presence of the mutated prion protein believed to cause the human form of mad cow disease.

Overhyped microbes include anthrax (famous for the U.S. mail attacks in 2000), the Ebola and Marburg viruses (which can cause dramatic bleeding and high fever in their victims), and the prion agent of mad cow disease (otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), which kills people by making their nervous systems degenerate.

Most people now accept the need to cull millions of farmyard animals in the face of epidemics like mad cow disease, but it is hard to imagine killing beloved puppies, bunnies, and kittens, even if those pets do turn out to offer a pathway for a dangerous new disease.

They found that although the protein stayed soluble for a week or two, it eventually polymerized into long fibers resembling those in so - called prion diseases — brain diseases such as scrapie in sheep, «mad cow disease» in cattle, and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans.

Vaccines have treated infectious prions in mice, raising hopes of a cure for the deadly human version of «mad cow disease».

Worse, AS appears to act like a prion disease (for example, variant Creutzfeldt - Jacob or «mad cow»).

For nearly 30 years, researchers have gathered evidence that a group of bizarre, fatal brain diseases — including mad cow and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease — are caused not by a virus or bacterium but by an abnormal form of a protein, called a prion.

And some cases of mad cow may have gone undetected because scientists examined only certain portions of animals» brains for signs of infection, Hansen says.

An innovative new technique could finally lead to an early diagnostic test for diseases such as Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE), or «mad cow», and its human counterpart, variant Creutzfeldt - Jacob Disease (vCJD).

«Whether that means there's a connection between the human form of sporadic Creutzfeldt - Jakob and the new strain of mad cow is a completely open question, but the fact that we see similar damage is intriguing,» says Michael Hansen, the senior research associate for Consumers Union, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.

Still, there are many precedents, says Paul Greger, a physician in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, who maintains a Web site about mad cow disease and FMD for the Organic Consumers Association.

Infamous for causing fatal degenerative brain diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known more commonly as «mad cow disease,» Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, and scrapie, prions are proteins that have the ability to self - perpetuate when they assume a particular conformation.

Scientists have located two possible receptors for the so - called prion protein (PrP) believed to be at fault in fatal neurological conditions such as «mad cow disease,» Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans, and scrapie in sheep.

Prions, the infectious agents best known for causing degenerative brain disorders such as «mad cow» disease, may have been spotted in bacteria.

Although endemic in Europe for centuries, the sheep disease known as scrapie achieved notoriety only during the 1980s, when it was apparently transmitted to cows in Britain via infected sheep remains in cattle feed, thereby causing mad cow disease.

The early signs of Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease — a rare, incurable brain disorder best known for its connection to mad cow disease — are difficult to interpret.

The same protein that causes neurodegenerative conditions such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) is also important for helping certain adult stem cells maintain themselves.

What's more, at the center of this process is a prion, a protein that changes shape in a self - perpetuating way — much like the prion in mammals that is responsible for certain neurological conditions such as Mad Cow disease.

Prusiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for discovering that the neurodegenerative diseases known as spongiform encephalopathies, which include «mad cow disease,» are caused by an infectious form of a protein that exists in all mammals and birds examined, including humans.

Prions are responsible for «mad cow» disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeld - Jakob and other fatal ailments in humans.

Although prions are infamous for causing Creutzfeld - Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow's disease, the present study indicates that prions identified in yeast, and possibly in plants, and other organisms may be beneficial.

I looked at the Bernard Jensen on Amazon, Radiant Life and the Bernard Jensen website but I couldn't find anything about the cows other than «100 % pure gelatin is produced from US Grade A cows tested negative for BSE / mad cow disease.»

Am I making a big deal to refuse the supplement because it contains gelatin or is there some good reason to refuse it... such as risk for acquiring Mad Cow or something?

Dr. Kris - Etherton asked if the Subcommittee would be dealing with issues such as PCBs in fish, hoof - and - mouth disease, and mad cow disease that are hot buttons for consumers.