Sentences with phrase «more mad cow»

Not exact matches

«If SARS hadn't been there, if mad cow hadn't been there and if Air Canada was not in bankruptcy [protection], Cara would have been making a lot more money,» says Len Racioppo, the Toronto - based president of Jarislowsky Fraser.

Prions, which are malformed proteins, may be alive or not; but the more or less reproduce — and are the cause of mad cow disease.

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

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.

So far, 117 of the youngsters have died from Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (CJD), the human form of mad cow disease, and three more have recently shown symptoms.

Even more worrisome, the molecular signature of one new strain resembles a deadly human neurological disease, sporadic Creutzfeldt - Jakob, leading to speculation that the new form of mad cow disease could spread among humans through the consumption of tainted beef.

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.

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.

Prions are like a more basic version of a virus, which has led to the outbreak of what you might know as mad cow disease.

Something like 70 percent of human diseases generally start in animals first (avian influenza, mad cow, chronic wasting disease) and then spread to humans, so we're seeing more demand for public health specialists.

We are concerned about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow disease, and other diseases that are occuring in North America to more than cows.